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13 Sing to the Lord!
    Praise the Lord!
He saves the lives of the poor!
    He saves them from the wicked!

Jeremiah’s Sixth Complaint

14 Curse the day that I was born!
    Don’t bless the day my mother had me.
15 Curse the man who told my father the news that I was born.
    “It’s a boy!” he said.
    “You have a son.”
He made my father very happy
    when he told him the news.

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13 Sing(A) to the Lord!
    Give praise to the Lord!
He rescues(B) the life of the needy
    from the hands of the wicked.(C)

14 Cursed be the day I was born!(D)
    May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!
15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news,
    who made him very glad, saying,
    “A child is born to you—a son!”

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