Jeremiah 20:16
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; 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 sense is plain and needs no unraveling. It is a denunciation of sin, spoken without softening. It also carries grief over the transgression of the people. Denunciation and sorrow belong together in it, judgment against wrong joined to mourning for those who committed it.