Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 20:15

"Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee; making him very glad." — Jeremiah 20:15 (ASV)

Making him very glad. —The memory, or rather the thought of that day, the joy of father and mother when their child was born (John 16:21), served, in an irony of destiny, to add the keenest pang to the misery of the present. The “sorrow’s crown of sorrow” was found in remembering happier days. We note the same tenderness turned to bitterness as in Jeremiah 15:10. The day of his birth was to him a day of darkness and not of light.