“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
And before you were born I consecrated you;
I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me
As a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land!
I have not lent, nor have men lent money to me,
Yet everyone curses me.

For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bear them, and their fathers who beget them in this land:

Cursed be the day when I was born;
Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!

Cursed be the man who brought the news
To my father, saying,
“A baby boy has been born to you!”
And made him very happy.

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