Jeremiah 20:15

Accursed, be the man who carried tidings to my father saying, There is born to thee a man-child!

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

14Accursed, be the day on which I was born,—The day when my mother bare me, let it not be blessed!

16Making him very glad: Yea let that man be—as the cities which Yahweh overthrew and repented not,—And let him hear An outcry in the morning, and A war-shout at broad noon!

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Cross References

Genesis 21:5Now Abraham was a hundred years old,—when Isaac his son was born to him.

Luke 1:14And there shall be joy to thee and exulting, and, many, over his birth, shall rejoice;

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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