Jeremiah 20:12-18 (New Revised Standard)
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12
O Lord of hosts, you test the righteous, you see the heart and the mind; let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have committed my cause.
13
Sing to the Lord; praise the Lord! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers.
14
Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed!
15
Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, saying, "A child is born to you, a son," making him very glad.
16
Let that man be like the cities that the Lord overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon,
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because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would 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?
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard Bible Version Online)
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