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Jeremiah sits in a dark plain room, overcome with grief, with no injury or violence depicted.
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Jeremiah 20:14-18

A prophet’s lament

The Stocks and the Fire Within · Jeremiah 20

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14Cursed be the day on which I was born; the day my mother bore me, let it not be blessed.

15Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son has been born to you,” making him very glad.

16Let that man be like the cities that Yahweh overthrew without relenting, and let him hear a cry in the morning and a battle shout at the time of noon.

17because he did not kill me from the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever pregnant.

18Why did I come out from the womb to see trouble and sorrow, and for my days to end in shame?

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