14 But I hope/desire that the day that I was born will be cursed.

I do not want anyone to celebrate that day.

15 And as for that man who brought to my father the news,

and caused him to be very happy, by saying

"You wife has given birth to a son for you",

I hope/desire that he also will be cursed.

16 Allow him to be destroyed like the cities that Yahweh destroyed long ago,

without acting mercifully toward them.

Cause that man to hear the people wailing in the morning,

and to hear the enemy soldiers shout their battle cries at noon.

17 I want that to happen to him because he did not kill me before I was born.

I wish that I had died in my mother’s womb,

and that my mother’s body would have been like [MET] my grave.

18 I have continually experienced much trouble and sorrow,

and I am disgraced now when I am about to die;

why was it necessary [RHQ] for me to me born?