Jeremiah 18:20-22

New Catholic Bible

²⁰ Should good be repaid with evil?
    Now they are digging a pit for me.
Remember how I stood before you,
    interceding on their behalf
    and begging you to turn away your wrath from them.
²¹ Therefore, give their children over to famine
    and abandon them to the power of the sword.
Let their wives become childless and widowed;
    let their men die of pestilence
    and their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
²² May screams be heard from their houses
    when you bring marauders upon them suddenly.
For they have dug a pit to catch me
    and laid snares for my feet.