Jeremiah 15:10-12

New International Reader's Version

¹⁰ My mother, I wish I had never been born!
    The whole land opposes me.
    They fight against me.
I haven’t made loans to anyone.
    And I haven’t borrowed anything.
    But everyone curses me anyway.

“Jeremiah, I will keep you safe for a good purpose.
    I will make your enemies ask you to pray for them.
They will make their appeal to you
    when they are in great trouble.

¹² “People of Judah, the armies of Babylon
    will come from the north.
They are as strong as iron and bronze.
    Can anyone break their power?