“And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;”
The request that the man (who announced Jeremiah's birth) hear a cry in the morning and alarm at noon, facing cities overturned without mercy represents the wish that the news-bringer experience the very destruction Jeremiah prophesies. The specific imagery of destruction and war emphasizes the extremity of the curse. The verse shows how the prophet's suffering generates wishes for harm on those connected to his existence.
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