Jeremias 20:12-17 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

12. And thou, O Lord of hosts, prover of the just, who seest the reins and the heart: let me see, I beseech thee, thy vengeance on them: for to thee I have laid open my cause.

13. Sing ye to the Lord, praise the Lord: because he hath delivered the soul of the poor out of the hand of the wicked.

14. Cursed be the day wherein I was borne: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed.

15. Cursed be the man that brought the tidings to my father, saying: A man child is born to thee: and made him greatly rejoice.

16. Let that man be as the cities that the Lord hath overthrown, and hath not repented: let him hear a cry in the morning, and howling at noontide:

17. Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.

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