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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.
16 Let that man be like the cities the Lord destroyed.[a]
    He had no pity on them.
Let him hear shouts of war in the morning;
    let him hear battle cries at noontime,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 20:16 cities the Lord destroyed That is, Sodom and Gomorrah. See Gen. 19.

14 Cursed be the day I was born!(A)
    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!”
16 May that man be like the towns(B)
    the Lord overthrew without pity.
May he hear wailing(C) in the morning,
    a battle cry at noon.

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