Abortion
[14] Cursed be the day I was born!
May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!
[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
the Lord overthrew without pity.
May he hear wailing in the morning,
a battle cry at noon.
[17] For he did not kill me in the womb,
with my mother as my grave,
her womb enlarged forever.
[18] Why did I ever come out of the womb
to see trouble and sorrow
and to end my days in shame?
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[11] If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
[12] even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
[13] For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
[14] I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
[15] My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
[16] Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
[17] How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is the sum of them!
[18] Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.
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[3] “May the day of my birth perish,
and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’
[4] That day—may it turn to darkness;
may God above not care about it;
may no light shine on it.
[5] May gloom and utter darkness claim it once more;
may a cloud settle over it;
may blackness overwhelm it.
[6] That night—may thick darkness seize it;
may it not be included among the days of the year
nor be entered in any of the months.
[7] May that night be barren;
may no shout of joy be heard in it.
[8] May those who curse days[a] curse that day,
those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.
[9] May its morning stars become dark;
may it wait for daylight in vain
and not see the first rays of dawn,
[10] for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me
to hide trouble from my eyes.
[11] “Why did I not perish at birth,
and die as I came from the womb?
[12] Why were there knees to receive me
and breasts that I might be nursed?
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[18] “Why then did you bring me out of the womb?
I wish I had died before any eye saw me.
[19] If only I had never come into being,
or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!
[20] Are not my few days almost over?
Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy
[21] before I go to the place of no return,
to the land of gloom and utter darkness,
[22] to the land of deepest night,
of utter darkness and disorder,
where even the light is like darkness.”
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Additional reading: The Lord our God is not a Liar
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Keep the Faith. Best regards,
Brother Ron, N.D.S.M.D.