“Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.”
The curse of the man who brought news to his father shows that Jeremiah extends the lament backward to his very conception and birth. The wishes for the messenger's distress represent the prophet's sense that his existence itself brought trouble. The emotional extremity of the lament—wishing to undo one's own conception—emphasizes the depth of Jeremiah's suffering.
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