12. Lord All-Powerful, you test good people;you look deeply into the heart and mind of a person.I have told you my arguments against these people,so let me see you give them the punishment they deserve.
13. Sing to the Lord!Praise the Lord!He saves the life of the poorfrom the power of the wicked.
14. Let there be a curse on the day I was born;let there be no blessing on the day when my mother gave birth to me.
15. Let there be a curse on the manwho brought my father the news:“You have a son!”This made my father very glad.
16. Let that man be like the townsthe Lord destroyed without pity.Let him hear loud crying in the morningand battle cries at noon,
17. because he did not kill me before I was born.Then my mother would have been my grave;she would have stayed pregnant forever.
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.