Jeremiah 20:15
A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad.
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 21:5-6 : 5 Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place. 6 And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.
- Jer 1:5 : 5 Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.
- Luke 1:14 : 14 And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.
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14 A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.
- Jer 20:16-183 verses80%
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 3:2-32 verses77%
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.
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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?
- Prov 23:24-252 verses72%
24 The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.
25 Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.
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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.
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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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13 The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.
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25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.
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21 He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.
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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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20 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.
- Gen 27:12-132 verses69%
12 If by chance my father puts his hand on me, it will seem to him that I am tricking him, and he will put a curse on me in place of a blessing.
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.
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14 But still, because you have had no respect for the Lord, death will certainly overtake the child who has newly come to birth.
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3 If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
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20 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it.
- Deut 28:16-194 verses69%
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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30 The Lord has said, Let this man be recorded as having no children, a man who will not do well in all his life: for no man of his seed will do well, seated on the seat of the kingdom of David and ruling again in Judah.
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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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19 And he said to his father, My head, my head! And the father said to a servant, Take him in to his mother.
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3 For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:
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14 And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.
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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,
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18 If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:
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1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
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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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21 When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.
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29 And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.
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22 And he said, While the child was still living I went without food and gave myself up to weeping: for I said, Who is able to say that the Lord will not have mercy on me and give the child life?
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16 Then when he gives his property to his sons for their heritage, he is not to put the son of his loved one in the place of the first son, the son of the hated wife:
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6 Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.
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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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25 Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.
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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.
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14 That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.
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14 He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse.
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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.
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14 Now if he has a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and in fear does not do the same:
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5 Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.
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11 My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.