The Scriptures 1998

Jeremiah 20:13-18 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

13. Sing to יהוה! Praise יהוה! For He has delivered the being of the poor from the hand of evil ones.

14. Cursed be the day in which I was born! Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!

15. Let the man be cursed who brought news to my father, saying, “A male child has been born to you,” making him very glad.

16. And let that man be like the cities which יהוה overthrew, and repented not. Let him hear the cry in the morning and the shouting at noon,

17. because I was not slain from the womb, so that my mother should have been my grave and her womb forever great.

18. Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?