Jeremiah 18:19-21

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁹ Give heed to me, O Lord,
    and listen to what my adversaries say!
²⁰ Is evil a recompense for good?
    Yet they have dug a pit for my life.
Remember how I stood before you
    to speak good for them,
    to turn away your wrath from them.
²¹ Therefore give their children over to famine;
    hurl them out to the power of the sword,
let their wives become childless and widowed.
    May their men meet death by pestilence,
    their youths be slain by the sword in battle.