Jeremiah 15:8-10

International Standard Version

⁸ I’ll make their^[a] widows more numerous
    than the sand of the sea.
At noontime I’ll send a destroyer
    against the mother^[b] of a young man.
I’ll cause terror and anguish
    to come to her unexpectedly.
⁹ “The woman who gave birth to seven will grow faint,
    her life will expire.
Her sun will set while it’s still day.
    She will be disgraced and humiliated.
I’ll kill the rest of them with swords
    in the presence of their enemies,”
        declares the Lord.

¹⁰ How terrible for me, my mother,
    that you gave birth to me,
a man of strife and contention for the whole land!
    I’ve neither lent nor borrowed,
        yet everyone curses me.