New Living Translation (NLT)
Jeremiah 20
13 Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For though I was poor and needy, he rescued me from my oppressors.
14 Yet I curse the day I was born! May no one celebrate the day of my birth.
15 I curse the messenger who told my father, “Good news—you have a son!”
16 Let him be destroyed like the cities of old that the LORD overthrew without mercy. Terrify him all day long with battle shouts,
17 because he did not kill me at birth. Oh, that I had died in my mother’s womb, that her body had been my grave!
18 Why was I ever born? My entire life has been filled with trouble, sorrow, and shame.
Jeremiah 21
1 The LORD spoke through Jeremiah when King Zedekiah sent Pashhur son of Malkijah and Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, the priest, to speak with him. They begged Jeremiah,
2 “Please speak to the LORD for us and ask him to help us. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon is attacking Judah. Perhaps the LORD will be gracious and do a mighty miracle as he has done in the past. Perhaps he will force Nebuchadnezzar to withdraw his armies.”
3 Jeremiah replied, “Go back to King Zedekiah and tell him,
4 ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I will make your weapons useless against the king of Babylon and the Babylonians who are outside your walls attacking you. In fact, I will bring your enemies right into the heart of this city.
5 I myself will fight against you with a strong hand and a powerful arm, for I am very angry. You have made me furious!
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