Jeremiah 20:16-18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁶ Let that man be like the cities
    that the Lord overthrew without pity;
let him hear a cry in the morning
    and an alarm at noon,^(A)
17 because he did not kill me in the womb;
    so my mother would have been my grave
    and her womb forever pregnant.^(B)
18 Why did I come forth from the womb
    to see toil and sorrow
    and spend my days in shame?^(C)