Is Israel a servant? Is he a native-born slave? Why has he become a prey?

For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land:

Cursed is the day in which I was born: do not let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, A boy is born to you; making him very glad.

I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.

Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.'

your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.