5  ⁱ“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,

and before you were born ^jI consecrated you;

I appointed you a prophet ^kto the nations.”

15  Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father,

“A son is born to you,”

^omaking him very glad.

16  Let that man be like ^pthe cities

that the Lord overthrew without pity;

^qlet him hear a cry in the morning

and an alarm at noon,

17  ^rbecause he did not kill me in the womb;

so my mother would have been my grave,

and her womb forever great.

18  ^sWhy did I come out from the womb

^tto see toil and sorrow,

and spend my days in shame?