Jer 20:14-18, 38:6 | ESV | STEP | Cursed be the day on which I was born ! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed !

Jeremiah 20:14-18

14 ^aCursed 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,
“A son is born to you,”
^bmaking him very glad.
16 Let that man be like ^cthe cities
that the Lord overthrew without pity;
^dlet him hear a cry in the morning
and an alarm at noon,
17 ^ebecause he did not kill me in the womb;
so my mother would have been my grave,
and her womb forever great.
18 ^fWhy did I come out from the womb
^gto see toil and sorrow,
and spend my days in shame?

Jeremiah 38:6

6 So they took Jeremiah ^hand cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in ⁱthe court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down ^jby ropes. ^kAnd there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and ^lJeremiah sank in the mud.