24:020:012 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
24:020:013 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered
the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
24:020:014 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein
my mother bare me be blessed.
24:020:015 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A
man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
24:020:016 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
24:020:017 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might
have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
24:020:018 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and
sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
24:021:001 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king
Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and
Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
24:021:002 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
24:021:003 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah: