Good News Translation
Jeremiah had been badly treated, even though he was chosen as a prophet before he was born, "to uproot and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow," but also "to build and to plant."

New Revised Standard Version
For they had mistreated him, who even in the womb had been consecrated a prophet, to pluck up and ruin and destroy, and likewise to build and to plant.

Contemporary English Version
He had been chosen as a prophet before his birth and was later told to speak of doom and destruction, of rising and rebuilding. But the evil kings of Judah mistreated him.

New American Bible
As foretold by . They mistreated him who even in the womb had been made a prophet, To root out, pull down, and destroy, and then to build and to plant.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So they gave their kingdom to others, and their glory to a strange nation,

So they gave their kingdom to others, and their glory to a strange nation,

Sirach 49:5
Except David, and Ezechias and Josias, all committed sin.

Sirach 49:6
For the kings of Juda forsook the law of the most High, and despised the fear of God.

Sirach 49:8
They burnt the chosen city of holiness, and made the streets thereof desolate according to the prediction of Jeremias.

Sirach 49:9
For they treated him evil, who was consecrated a prophet from his mother's womb, to overthrow, and pluck up, and destroy, and to build again, and renew.