Jeremiah 20:14

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Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother gave birth to me not be blessed.

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  • Jer 15:10 : 10 Woe to me, my mother, that you gave birth to me—a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
  • Job 3:3-9 : 3 Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man is conceived.' 4 May that day be darkness; may God above not seek it, nor let light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize it; let it not be joined to the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. 7 Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful voice enter it. 8 Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled to rouse Leviathan. 9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning. 10 Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes. 11 Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire? 12 Why were there knees to receive me, or breasts that I should nurse? 13 For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept, then I would be at rest. 14 With kings and counselors of the earth who built ruins for themselves. 15 Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver. 16 Or why was I not like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw the light?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 20:15-18
    4 verses
    85%

    15Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, 'A male child has been born to you,' and made him very glad.

    16May that man be like the cities the LORD overthrew without relenting. May he hear cries of distress in the morning and shouts of alarm at noon.

    17For he did not kill me in the womb, so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever pregnant.

    18Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?

  • Job 3:1-4
    4 verses
    81%

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

    2And Job answered and said:

    3Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man is conceived.'

    4May that day be darkness; may God above not seek it, nor let light shine upon it.

  • Jer 15:10
    77%

    10Woe to me, my mother, that you gave birth to me—a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    75%

    18Why then did You bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died and no eye had seen me.

    19If only I had never existed, carried straight from the womb to the grave.

    20Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

  • Job 3:7-11
    5 verses
    74%

    7Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful voice enter it.

    8Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled to rouse Leviathan.

    9Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning.

    10Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

    11Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?

  • Prov 30:11
    74%

    11There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother.

  • Job 3:16
    72%

    16Or why was I not like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw the light?

  • Ps 109:17
    72%

    17He loved to curse—may it come back to him; he took no delight in blessing—may it be far from him.

  • Deut 27:16
    71%

    16Cursed is anyone who dishonors his father or mother. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Ps 51:5
    71%

    5For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

  • Ezek 16:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4On the day you were born, your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

    5No eye looked on you with pity to do any of these things for you, out of compassion. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, for you were despised on the day you were born.

  • Ps 73:14
    70%

    14For I am stricken all day long and chastened every morning.

  • Deut 28:16-19
    4 verses
    70%

    16Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the field.

    17Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.

    18Cursed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your land, the offspring of your cattle, and the increase of your flocks.

    19Cursed will you be when you come in, and cursed will you be when you go out.

  • Job 14:1
    69%

    1Man, born of a woman, is short-lived and full of trouble.

  • Ps 109:14
    69%

    14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, and may the sin of his mother not be blotted out.

  • Prov 20:20
    69%

    20Whoever curses their father or mother, their lamp will be extinguished in utter darkness.

  • Job 1:21
    69%

    21He said, 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be blessed.'

  • Ps 22:10
    69%

    10Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me secure on my mother’s breasts.

  • Gen 27:13
    69%

    13His mother said to him, 'Let your curse be on me, my son. Just listen to me and go, get them for me.'

  • Job 31:29-30
    2 verses
    69%

    29If I have rejoiced at my enemy's misfortune or gloated when harm came to him—

    30I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against their life—

  • Jer 20:13
    69%

    13Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of the wicked.

  • Num 23:8
    69%

    8How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those the LORD has not denounced?

  • Lam 3:14
    68%

    14I have become the laughingstock of all my people; their mocking song all day long.

  • Job 17:14
    68%

    14and I call the pit my father, and the worm my mother and sister,

  • Lev 20:9
    68%

    9Anyone who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood is upon him.

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

    11David then said to Abishai and all his servants, "Look, my own son who came from my own body is trying to take my life. How much more now this Benjamite! Leave him alone; let him curse, for the Lord has told him to.

    12Perhaps the Lord will look upon my affliction and repay me with good for the curses I am receiving today.

  • Ps 37:22
    68%

    22For those blessed by the LORD will inherit the land, but those cursed by Him will be cut off.

  • Isa 45:10
    67%

    10Woe to those who say to a father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’

  • Jer 22:26
    67%

    26I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another land where neither of you were born—and there you will both die.

  • Job 19:18
    67%

    18Even little children despise me; when I rise, they speak against me.

  • Ps 109:12
    67%

    12Let there be no one to show him kindness, and no one to be gracious to his fatherless children.

  • Job 7:16
    67%

    16I despise my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.