Jeremiah 20:18

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

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  • Job 3:20 : 20 Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in soul?
  • Job 14:1 : 1 Man, born of a woman, is short-lived and full of trouble.
  • Lam 3:1 : 1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of His wrath.
  • Ps 69:19 : 19 Come near to my soul and redeem it; because of my enemies, ransom me.
  • Ps 90:9-9 : 9 All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a sigh. 10 The span of our life is seventy years—or eighty, if we have strength; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
  • 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole world—to angels as well as to men. 10 We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, but we are dishonored! 11 To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, and we are homeless. 12 We work hard with our own hands. When we are insulted, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it. 13 When we are slandered, we respond gently. We have become like the scum of the earth, the refuse of all, even until now.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.
  • Heb 10:36 : 36 You need endurance so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 Still others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising its shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • Heb 13:13 : 13 Therefore, let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.
  • 1 Pet 4:14-16 : 14 If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. 15 If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler. 16 However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name.
  • Gen 3:16-19 : 16 To the woman He said, 'I will greatly increase your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.' 17 To Adam He said, 'Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, "You must not eat from it," cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.' 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return.
  • Isa 1:6 : 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, only wounds, bruises, and raw sores. They have not been tended, or bandaged, or softened with oil.
  • Isa 51:7 : 7 Listen to me, you who know righteousness, you people who have my teaching in your hearts. Do not fear the reproach of men or be dismayed by their insults.
  • Jer 8:18 : 18 My grief is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.
  • Lam 1:12 : 12 "Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.
  • John 16:20 : 20 Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
  • Acts 5:41 : 41 So they went out from the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been counted worthy to suffer disgrace for the name.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Job 10:18-20
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    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.

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  • Job 3:10-12
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    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?

    12Why were there knees to receive me, or breasts that I should nurse?

  • Jer 20:14-15
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    78%

    14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother gave birth to me not be blessed.

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

  • Job 3:16
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    16Or why was I not like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw the light?

  • Job 3:3
    75%

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

  • Job 14:1
    74%

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

  • Ps 51:5
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    5For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9'Commit yourself to the LORD; let Him deliver him! Let Him rescue him, since He delights in him.'

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

  • Job 31:18
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    18but from my youth I raised him as a father would, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

  • Job 17:14-15
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    72%

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

    15then where is my hope? And who can see any hope for me?

  • Eccl 5:15
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    15This too is a grievous evil: As a man comes, so he departs, and what does he gain from all his labor for the wind?

  • Isa 21:3
    72%

    3Therefore my body is filled with trembling; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I am bent over by what I heard; I am dismayed by what I saw.

  • Hos 13:13
    72%

    13The pains of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son; when it is time, he does not come to the opening of the womb.

  • Jer 15:10
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    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 1:21
    71%

    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.'

  • Lam 1:20
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    20See, LORD, how distressed I am! I am in anguish within, my heart is overturned because I have been very rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death.

  • Job 16:16
    71%

    16My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death.

  • Ps 71:6
    71%

    6I have relied on you from birth; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.

  • Ezek 16:5
    70%

    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.

  • Job 19:18
    70%

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

  • Ps 31:10
    70%

    10Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes grow weak with sorrow, as do my soul and my body.

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    15Did not the same One who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same God form us both within our mothers?

  • Jer 10:19
    70%

    19Woe to me because of my brokenness! My wound is incurable. Yet I said, 'This is my suffering, and I must endure it.'

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    10I said, "In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years."

  • Job 30:19
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    19He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

  • Ps 38:17
    70%

    17For I said, "Lest they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me."

  • Job 14:13
    70%

    13If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!

  • Job 3:24
    69%

    24For my sighing comes before my food, and my groanings pour out like water.

  • Isa 26:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17As a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her labor pains, so were we in Your presence, LORD.

    18We were pregnant, we writhed in pain, but we gave birth only to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth, and no one is born to inhabit the world.

  • Job 9:29
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    29Since I am already condemned, why should I labor in vain?

  • Ps 38:6
    69%

    6My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness.

  • Jer 8:18
    69%

    18My grief is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

  • Ps 89:47
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    47How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath keep burning like fire?

  • Ps 22:6
    69%

    6To you they cried out and were delivered; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.

  • Job 17:1
    69%

    1My spirit is broken, my days have faded away, and the grave is ready for me.

  • Lam 1:13
    69%

    13From on high he sent fire; it burns in my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

  • Ps 139:15
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    15My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

  • Lam 3:1
    69%

    1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of His wrath.

  • Isa 38:15
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    15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He has done this. I will walk humbly all my years because of this anguish of my soul.

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    11What is my strength, that I should hope? What is my end, that I should prolong my life?