Jeremiah 20:14
A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.
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Referenced Verses
- Jer 15:10 : 10 Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.
- Job 3:3-9 : 3 Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world. 4 That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it; 5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it. 6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. 7 As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it; 8 Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake. 9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn. 10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes. 11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath? 12 Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk? 13 For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace, 14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves; 15 Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver; 16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
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- Jer 20:15-184 verses85%
15 A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad.
16 May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;
17 Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.
18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?
- Job 3:1-44 verses81%
1 Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,
2 Job made answer and said,
3 Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.
4 That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;
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10 Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.
- Job 10:18-203 verses75%
18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,
19 And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.
20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
- Job 3:7-115 verses74%
7 As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;
8 Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.
9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.
10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.
11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?
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11 There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.
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16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
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17 As he took pleasure in cursing, so let it come on him; and as he had no delight in blessing, let it be far from him.
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16 Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.
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5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
- Ezek 16:4-52 verses70%
4 As for your birth, on the day of your birth your cord was not cut and you were not washed in water to make you clean; you were not salted or folded in linen bands.
5 No eye had pity on you to do any of these things to you or to be kind to you; but you were put out into the open country, because your life was hated at the time of your birth.
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14 For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.
- Deut 28:16-194 verses70%
16 You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field.
17 A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.
18 A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
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1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
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14 Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.
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20 If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.
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21 With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
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10 I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.
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13 And his mother said, Let the curse be on me, my son: only do as I say, and go and get them for me.
- Job 31:29-302 verses69%
29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;
30 (For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)
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13 Make melody to the Lord, give praise to the Lord: for he has made the soul of the poor man free from the hands of the evil-doers.
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8 How may I put curses on him who is not cursed by God? how may I be angry with him with whom the Lord is not angry?
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14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.
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14 If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
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9 Every man cursing his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death; because of his curse on his father or his mother, his blood will be on him.
- 2 Sam 16:11-122 verses68%
11 And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, You see how my son, the offspring of my body, has made designs against my life: how much more then may this Benjamite do so? Let him be, and let him go on cursing; for the Lord has given him orders.
12 It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.
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22 Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.
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10 Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?
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26 I will send you out, and your mother who gave you birth, into another country not the land of your birth; and there death will come to you.
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18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.
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12 Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead.
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16 I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.