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.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

In Context

14Cursed be the day wherein I was born; the day wherein my mother bore me, let it not be blessed.

16And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and an alarm at noontide;

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Cross References

Genesis 21:5And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 20:15-18

The Prophet's Impatient Appeal. ( b. c. 600.) 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. 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; 17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always… Read the whole commentary →

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