Jeremiah 18:19-21

Contemporary English Version

¹⁹ Please, Lord, answer my prayer.
Make my enemies stop
    accusing me of evil.
²⁰ I tried to help them,
but they are paying me back
    by digging a pit to trap me.
I even begged you
    not to punish them.
²¹ But now I am asking you
to let their children starve
    or be killed in war.
Let women lose
their husbands and sons
    to disease and violence.