Jeremiah 20

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O Lord, thou has deceived me,

 and I was deceived;

thou art stronger than I,

 and thou has prevailed.

I have become a laughingstock all the day;

 everyone mocks at me.

For whenever I speak, I cry out,

 I shout, "Violence and destruction!"

For the word of the Lord has become for me

 a reproach and derision all day long.

If I say, "I will not mention him,

• • r speak any more in his name,"

there is in my heart as it were a burning fire

 shut up in my bones,

and I am weary with holding it in,

 and I cannot...

Cursed be the day

• • n which I was born!

The day when my mother bore me,

 let it not be blessed!

Cursed be the man

 who brought the news to my father,

"A son is born to you,"

 making him very glad.

Let that man be like the cities

 which the Lord overthrew without pity;

let him hear a cry in the morning

 and an alarm at noon,

because he did not kill me in the womb;

 my mother would have been my grave,
 and her womb for ever great.

Why did I come forth from the womb

 to see toil and sorrow,
 and spend my days in shame?

Jeremiah 20:7-10,14-18

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