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15 Let there be a curse on the man
    who brought my father the news:
“You have a son!”
    This made my father glad.
16 Let that man be like the towns
    the Lord destroyed without pity.
Let that man hear loud crying in the morning.
    And let him hear battle cries at noon.
17 This is because he did not kill me before I was born.
    Then my mother would have been my grave.
    I would never have been born.

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15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news,
    who made him very glad, saying,
    “A child is born to you—a son!”
16 May that man be like the towns(A)
    the Lord overthrew without pity.
May he hear wailing(B) in the morning,
    a battle cry at noon.
17 For he did not kill me in the womb,(C)
    with my mother as my grave,
    her womb enlarged forever.

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