Jeremiah 20:14-18

International Children’s Bible

¹⁴ Let there be a curse on the day I was born.
    Let there be no blessing on the day when my mother gave birth to me.
¹⁵ Let there be a curse on the man
    who brought my father the news:
“You have a son!”
    This made my father glad.
¹⁶ Let that man be like the towns
    the Lord destroyed without pity.
Let that man hear loud crying in the morning.
    And let him hear battle cries at noon.
¹⁷ This is because he did not kill me before I was born.
    Then my mother would have been my grave.
    I would never have been born.
¹⁸ Why did I have to come out of my mother’s body?
    All I have known is trouble and sorrow.
    And my life will end in shame.