Jeremiah 20:14-18

JPS_ASV_Byz(i) 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born; the day wherein my mother bore me, let it not be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying: 'A man-child is born unto thee'; making him very glad. 16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and an alarm at noontide; 17 Because He slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. 18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?