Jeremiah 20:17-18

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁷because he did not kill me in the womb;
    so my mother would have been my grave,
    and her womb forever great.
¹⁸Why did I come forth from the womb
    to see toil and sorrow,
    and spend my days in shame?

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