Jeremiah 20:10–18
10For I have heard the defaming of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”↗
11But the LORD is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.↗
12But the LORD of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.↗
13Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.↗
14Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.↗
15Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.↗
16Let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime,↗
17because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.↗
18Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?↗
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