Jeremiah 20:17

because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

In Context

16Let that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath, and repented not: let him hear crying in the morning, and loud lamentation at noon;

18Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?

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Cross References

Job 3:10Because it shut not up the gates of my mother’s womb, 1 For so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes. 1

Job 3:16Or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother’s womb, 1 Or as infants who never saw light. 1

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, 1 Yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, 1 Yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, 1 And also he have no burial; 1 I said, An untimely birth is better than he. 1

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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