Jeremiah 20:18

Why [is] this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

In Context

17Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me — my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:16Unto the woman He said, 'Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband [is] thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

Job 3:20Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

Job 14:13O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

Psalms 90:9For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.

Isaiah 51:7Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart [is] My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,

Jeremiah 15:18Why hath my pain been perpetual? And my wound incurable? It hath refused to be healed, Thou art surely to me as a failing stream, Waters not stedfast.

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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