Jeremiah 18:19-21

The Voice

¹⁹ Jeremiah: O Eternal my God, please listen to me.
        Do You hear what my enemies are saying?
²⁰     Should good be repaid with such evil?
        They have set a trap for me.
    Remember how I stood before You in prayer,
        begging You to do them good,
    Pleading for You to turn Your anger away from them,
        and this is how they repay me!
²¹     Well then. Let their children starve!
        Let their young warriors fall in battle!
    Let their wives become childless widows!
        Let their husbands be struck down and killed
        and their young men die in battle!