Jeremiah 20:16-17

The messenger of Jeremiah’s birth would have been better off, from the prophet’s perspective, if he had been slain by the Lord, as when the Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19). He would have been well advised to run for cover on that day. That messenger was the object of Jeremiah’s curse, because the prophet wished the Lord had slain him in his mother’s womb rather than bringing him to birth.