Jeremiah 20:16-18

Common English Bible

¹⁶ May the bearer of that news be like the cities
    that the Lord destroyed without mercy.
May he hear screams in the morning,
    and the battle cries at noon,
¹⁷     because he didn’t kill me in the womb
        and let my mother become my grave,
        her womb pregnant forever.
¹⁸ Why was I ever born
    when all I see is suffering and misery,
        and my days are filled with shame?