Jeremiah 20:17
because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 10:18-19 : 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me. 19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Job 3:10-11 : 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?
- Job 3:16 : 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
- Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
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18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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10Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
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17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me.
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,
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9But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.
10I was cast upon thee from the womb; Thou art my God since my mother bare me.
- Jer 20:14-163 verses77%
14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
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;
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16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
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6By thee have I been holden up from the womb; Thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: My praise shall be continually of thee.
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18(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb);
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15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
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13For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.
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20The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
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3Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
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5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.
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22Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; And there was none that escaped or remained in the day of Jehovah's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
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13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
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15My frame was not hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, [And] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
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13If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
14If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;
15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
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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.
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20And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
21And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I did bear.
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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.
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13His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.
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18Jehovah hath chastened me sore; But he hath not given me over unto death.
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20Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
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19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
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18O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no [resting] -place.
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1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.
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16As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face.
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15So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones.
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3lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
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20He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
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27Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.