Jeremiah 20:18

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Wherefore came I foorth of my mothers wombe? to haue experience of labour and sorowe, and to leade my lyfe with shame?

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  • Job 3:20 : 20 Wherefore is the light geuen to hym that is in miserie? & lyfe vnto them that haue heauy heartes?
  • Job 14:1 : 1 Man that is borne of woman, hath but a short time to lyue, and is full of miserie.
  • Lam 3:1 : 1 I am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie.
  • Ps 69:19 : 19 Thou hast knowen my reproofe, my shame, and my dishonour: myne aduersaries are all in thy syght.
  • Ps 90:9-9 : 9 For all our dayes do passe in thine anger: we spende our yeres as in speaking a worde. 10 The dayes of our yeres be in all threescore yeres and tenne, and yf through strength of nature men come to foure score yeres: yet is their iolitie but labour and care, yea moreouer it passeth in haste from vs, and we flee from it.
  • 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 For me thynketh, that God hath set foorth vs, whiche are the last apostles, as it were men appoynted to death. For we are made a gasyng stocke vnto the worlde, and to the angels, and to men. 10 We are fooles for Christes sake, but ye are wyse in Christe. We are weake, but ye are stronge. Ye are honorable, but we are despised. 11 Euen vnto this time we both hunger and thirste, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwellyng place. 12 And labour, working with our owne handes. We are reuyled, and we blesse. We are persecuted, and suffer it. 13 We are euyll spoken of, and we praye: we are made as the fylthynesse of the worlde, the ofscowryng of all thynges vnto this day.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For the which cause I also suffer these thynges. Neuerthelesse, I am not ashamed: For I knowe whom I haue beleued, and I am perswaded that he is able to kepe that which I haue committed to hym, agaynst that day.
  • Heb 10:36 : 36 For ye haue neede of pacience, that after ye haue done the wyll of God, ye myght receaue the promise.
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 And others were tryed with mockynges, and scourgynges: Yea, moreouer with bondes and prisonment:
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 Lokyng vnto Iesus, the captayne and finissher of our fayth, which for the ioy that was set before hym, endured the crosse, hauyng dispised the shame, and is set downe on the ryght hande of the throne of God.
  • Heb 13:13 : 13 Let vs go foorth therfore vnto hym out of the tentes, bearyng his reproche.
  • 1 Pet 4:14-16 : 14 Yf ye be rayled vpon for the name of Christe, happy are ye. For the spirite of glory and of God, resteth vpon you: On their part he is euyll spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 15 See that none of you be punished as a murtherer, or as a thiefe, or an euyll doer, or as a busie body in other mens matters. 16 Yf any man suffer as a Christian man, let hym not be ashamed, but let him glorifie God on this behalfe.
  • Gen 3:16-19 : 16 But vnto the woman he sayde: I wyll very much multiplie thy sorowe, and thy griefes of chylde bearyng, In sorowe shalt thou bring foorth children: thy desire shalbe to thy husbande, and he shall haue the rule of thee. 17 Unto Adam he sayde: Because thou hast hearkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tree concernyng the whiche I commaunded thee, saying, thou shalt not eate of it, cursed is the grounde for thy sake, in sorowe shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy lyfe. 18 Thorne also and thistle shall it bryng foorth to thee, and thou shalt eate the hearbe of the fielde. 19 In the sweatte of thy face shalt thou eate thy breade, tyll thou be turned agayne into the ground, for out of it wast thou taken: For dust thou art, and into dust shalt thou be turned agayne.
  • Isa 1:6 : 6 From the sole of the foote vnto the head there is nothyng sounde in it: but woundes, blaynes, and putrifiyng sore: they haue not ben salued, neither wrapped vp, neither molified with the oyntment.
  • Isa 51:7 : 7 Hearken vnto me ye that haue knowledge in ryghteousnesse, thou people that bearest my lawe in thyne heart: feare not the reuilynges of men, be not afrayde of their blasphemies.
  • Jer 8:18 : 18 I woulde haue had comfort against sorowe: but sorowe is come vpon me, and heauinesse vexeth my heart.
  • Lam 1:12 : 12 Haue ye no regarde all ye that go foreby, beholde & see yf there be any sorowe lyke vnto mine, wherwith the Lorde hath troubled me in the day of his fearefull wrath.
  • John 16:20 : 20 Ueryly veryly I say vnto you, ye shall wepe and lament, the worlde shall reioyce: ye shall sorowe, but your sorowe shalbe turned to ioy.
  • Acts 5:41 : 41 And they departed from the counsell, reioycing that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for his name.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, & keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past, and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me.

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    17Why sluest thou not me assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe? or that my mother had ben my graue her selfe, that the byrth might not haue come out, but remayned still in her?

  • Job 10:18-20
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    18Wherfore hast thou brought me out of the wombe? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seene me,

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  • Job 3:10-12
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    10Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hyd sorowe from myne eyes.

    11Alas why died I not in the birth? why dyd not I perishe assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe?

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  • Jer 20:14-15
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    14Cursed be the day wherein I was borne, vnhappy be the day wherein my mother brought me foorth.

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  • Job 3:16
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    16Or why was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, either as young children which neuer sawe the light?

  • Job 3:3
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    3Let the day perishe wherin I was borne, and the night in the whiche it was sayd, There is a man childe conceaued.

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    1Man that is borne of woman, hath but a short time to lyue, and is full of miserie.

  • Ps 51:5
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    5Beholde, I was ingendred in iniquitie: and in sinne my mother conceaued me.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9But thou art he that tokest me out of my mothers wombe: thou causedst me to trust in thee, suckyng my mothers breastes.

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    18(For from my youth it hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue ben guyde to the wydowe)

  • Job 17:14-15
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    14I saide to corruption, thou art my father, and to the wormes, you are my mother and my sister.

    15Where is then now my hope? or who hath considered the thing that I loke for?

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    15Lyke as he came naked out of his mothers wombe, so goeth he thyther agayne, and caryeth nothyng away with him of all his labour.

  • Isa 21:3
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    3Therfore are my loynes fylled with sorowe, heauinesse hath taken holde vpon me as the panges of a woman that is trauaylyng: it made me stoupe when I heard it, and it vexed me when I sawe it.

  • Hos 13:13
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    13Therfore shall sorowes come vpon him as vpon a woman that trauayleth: an vndiscrete sonne is he, els woulde he not stande styll at the tyme of birth of children.

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    10O mother, alas that thou euer didst beare me, a brawler and rebuker of the whole lande: though I neuer lent nor receaued vpon vsurie, yet all men speake euyll vpon me.

  • Job 1:21
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    21And sayde: Naked came I out of my mothers wombe, & naked shall I turne thyther againe: The Lorde gaue & the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lorde.

  • Lam 1:20
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    20Consider (O Lorde) howe I am troubled, my wombe is disquieted, my heart turneth about in me, and I am full of heauinesse, because I rebelled stubburnly: the sworde hurteth me without, and within I am lyke vnto death.

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    16My face is withered with weeping, & in mine eyes is the shadowe of death.

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    6Through thee haue I ben mayntayned euer since I was borne: thou art he that toke me out of my mothers wombe, my praise shalbe alway of thee.

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    5No eye pitied thee to do any of these thinges for thee, for to haue compassion vpon thee: but thou wast vtterly cast out vpon the fielde in contempt of thy person in the day of thy byrth.

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    18Yea, the young men despised me, and when I rose they spake euill vpon me.

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    10For my life is wasted with sorow, and mine eares with mourning: my strength fayleth me because of mine iniquitie, and my bones are putrified.

  • Job 31:15
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    15He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shapen a like in our mothers bodies?

  • Jer 10:19
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    19Alas howe am I hurt? alas howe paynefull are my scourges vnto me? for I consider this sorowe by my selfe, and I must suffer it.

  • Isa 38:10
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    10I thought I shoulde haue gone to the gates of hell when myne age was shortened, and haue wanted the residue of my yeres.

  • Job 30:19
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    19He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like asshes and dust.

  • Ps 38:17
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    17Because I am disposed to a haltyng: and my sorowe is euer in my syght.

  • Job 14:13
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    13O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, & keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past, and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me.

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    24For my sighes come before I eate, and my roringes are powred out like the water:

  • Isa 26:17-18
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    17Like as a woman with chylde that draweth nye towardes her trauayle is sorie and cryeth in her paynes: euen so haue we ben in thy sight O Lorde.

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    29If I be wicked, why then labour I in vayne?

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    6I am become crooked, and am exceedingly pulled downe: I go a mourning all the day long.

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    18I woulde haue had comfort against sorowe: but sorowe is come vpon me, and heauinesse vexeth my heart.

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    47Remember what I am, howe short my tyme is of lyfe: wherfore hast thou created in vayne all the sonnes of men?

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    6But as for me I am a worme and no man: a very scorne of men, and an outcast of the people.

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    13From aboue hath he sent downe a fire into my bones, and it burneth them cruelly: he hath layde a net for my feete, and throwen me wyde open, he hath made me desolate, so that I must euer be mournyng.

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    15The substaunce of my body was not hyd from thee: when I was made in secrete and fashioned with distinct members in my mothers wombe.

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    1I am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie.

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    15What shall I say? The Lorde hath made a promise to me, yea and he hym selfe hath perfourmed it: I shall therefore so long as I lyue remember this bitternesse of my lyfe.

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    11For what powre haue I to endure? And what is myne end, that my soule might be patient?