Jeremiah 20:16-18

International Children’s Bible

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.