Jeremiah 18:19-21

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¹⁹ ‘Please listen to me, Lord!
    Hear what my enemies are saying against me.
²⁰ I have done good things for them,
    but they are paying me back with evil things.
    They have already dug a grave for me!
Remember that I stood in front of you
    and I asked you to forgive them.
I asked you not to be angry with them.
²¹ So now I ask you to punish them!
    Yes, may famine kill their children.
    May they die in war.
May wives no longer have husbands or children.
May disease kill the old men.
    May the young men die in battle.