Jeremiah 20:14

American Standard Version (1901)

Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 15:10 : 10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.
  • Job 3:3-9 : 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived. 4 Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months. 7 Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein. 8 Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan. 9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning: 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes. 11 Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me? 12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 20:15-18
    4 verses
    85%

    15Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

    16And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

    17because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

    18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

  • Job 3:1-4
    4 verses
    81%

    1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

    2And Job answered and said:

    3Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

    4Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

  • Jer 15:10
    77%

    10Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    75%

    18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

    19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

    20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Job 3:7-11
    5 verses
    74%

    7Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.

    8Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

    9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

    10Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

    11Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

  • Prov 30:11
    74%

    11There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother.

  • Job 3:16
    72%

    16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

  • Ps 109:17
    72%

    17Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

  • Deut 27:16
    71%

    16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Ps 51:5
    71%

    5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

  • Ezek 16:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to cleanse thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

    5No eye pitied thee, to do any of these things unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, for that thy person was abhorred, in the day that thou wast born.

  • Ps 73:14
    70%

    14For all the day long have I been plagued, And chastened every morning.

  • Deut 28:16-19
    4 verses
    70%

    16Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

    17Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

    18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock.

    19Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

  • Job 14:1
    69%

    1Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

  • Ps 109:14
    69%

    14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah; And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

  • Prov 20:20
    69%

    20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

  • Job 1:21
    69%

    21and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah.

  • Ps 22:10
    69%

    10I was cast upon thee from the womb; Thou art my God since my mother bare me.

  • Gen 27:13
    69%

    13And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son; only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.

  • Job 31:29-30
    2 verses
    69%

    29If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;

    30(Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);

  • Jer 20:13
    69%

    13Sing unto Jehovah, praise ye Jehovah; for he hath delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evil-doers.

  • Num 23:8
    69%

    8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied?

  • Lam 3:14
    68%

    14I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

  • Job 17:14
    68%

    14If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;

  • Lev 20:9
    68%

    9For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

  • 2 Sam 16:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more [may] this Benjamite now [do it] ? let him alone, and let him curse; for Jehovah hath bidden him.

    12It may be that Jehovah will look on the wrong done unto me, and that Jehovah will requite me good for [his] cursing of me this day.

  • Ps 37:22
    68%

    22For such as are blessed of him shall inherit the land; And they that are cursed of him shall be cut off.

  • Isa 45:10
    67%

    10Woe unto him that saith unto a father, What begettest thou? or to a woman, With what travailest thou?

  • Jer 22:26
    67%

    26And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.

  • Job 19:18
    67%

    18Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

  • Ps 109:12
    67%

    12Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

  • Job 7:16
    67%

    16I loathe [my life] ; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.