Jeremiah 20:14

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Cursed be the daye, wherein I was borne: vnhappie be ye daye, where in my mother brought me forth.

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  • Jer 15:10 : 10 O mother, alas that euer thou dydest beare me, an enemie and hated of the whole londe: Though I neuer lente ner receaued vpon vsury, yet euery man speake euell vpon me.
  • Job 3:3-9 : 3 lost be that daye, wherin I was borne: and the night, in the which it was sayde: there is a manchilde conceaued. 4 The same daye be turned to darcknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, nether be shyned vpo wt light: 5 but be couered with darcknesse, and the shadowe of death. Let the dymme cloude fall vpon it, and let it be lapped in with sorowe. 6 Let the darckstorme ouercome ye night, let it not be reckened amonge the dayes off the yeare, ner counted in the monethes. 7 Despysed be that night, and discommended: let them that curse the daye, 8 geue it their curse also, euen those that be ready to rayse vp Leuiathan. 9 Let the starres be dymme thorow darcknesse of it. Let it loke for light, but let it se none, nether the rysynge vp of the fayre mornynge: 10 because it shut not vp the wombe that bare me, ner hyd these sorowes fro myne eyes. 11 Alas, why dyed I not in ye byrth? Why dyd not I perysh, as soone as I came out of my mothers wobe? 12 Why set they me vpo yeir knees? Why gaue they me suck with their brestes? 13 Then shulde I now haue lyen still, I shulde haue slepte, and bene at rest: 14 like as the kynges ad lordes of ye earth, which buylde them selues speciall places: 15 As the prynces that haue greate substaunce of golde, & their houses full of syluer. 16 O that I vtterly had no beynge, or were as a thige borne out of tyme (that is put asyde) ether as yonge children, which neuer sawe the light.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 20:15-18
    4 verses
    85%

    15Cursed be the man, that brought my father the tidinges, to make him glad, sayenge: thou hast gotten a sonne.

    16Let it happen vnto that man, as to the cities which ye LORDE turned vpside downe (when he had longe herde the wicked rumoure of them)

    17because he slewe me not, as soone as I came out off my mothers wombe, and because my mother was not my graue hirselff, that the byrth might not haue come out, but remayned still in her.

    18Wherfore came I forth off my mothers wombe? To haue experience of laboure and sorowe? and to lede my life with shame?

  • Job 3:1-4
    4 verses
    81%

    1After this opened Iob his mouth, and cursed his daye,

    2and sayde:

    3lost be that daye, wherin I was borne: and the night, in the which it was sayde: there is a manchilde conceaued.

    4The same daye be turned to darcknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, nether be shyned vpo wt light:

  • Jer 15:10
    77%

    10O mother, alas that euer thou dydest beare me, an enemie and hated of the whole londe: Though I neuer lente ner receaued vpon vsury, yet euery man speake euell vpon me.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    75%

    18Wherfore hast thou brought me out of my mothers wombe? O that I had perished, & that no eye had sene me.

    19Yf they had caried me to my graue, as soone as I was borne, then shulde I be now, as though I had neuer bene.

    20Shall not my short life come soone to an ende? O holde the fro me, let me alone, that I maye ease myself a litle:

  • Job 3:7-11
    5 verses
    74%

    7Despysed be that night, and discommended: let them that curse the daye,

    8geue it their curse also, euen those that be ready to rayse vp Leuiathan.

    9Let the starres be dymme thorow darcknesse of it. Let it loke for light, but let it se none, nether the rysynge vp of the fayre mornynge:

    10because it shut not vp the wombe that bare me, ner hyd these sorowes fro myne eyes.

    11Alas, why dyed I not in ye byrth? Why dyd not I perysh, as soone as I came out of my mothers wobe?

  • Prov 30:11
    74%

    11He that bryngeth vp an euell reporte vpo the generacion of his father and mother, is not worthy to be commended.

  • Job 3:16
    72%

    16O that I vtterly had no beynge, or were as a thige borne out of tyme (that is put asyde) ether as yonge children, which neuer sawe the light.

  • Ps 109:17
    72%

    17He clothed him self with cursynge like as with a rayment: yee it wente in to his bowels like water, and like oyle in to his bones.

  • Deut 27:16
    71%

    16Cursed be he, that curseth his father and mother. And all the people shall saye, Amen.

  • Ps 51:5
    71%

    5Beholde, I was borne in wickednesse, and in synne hath my mother conceaued me.

  • Ezek 16:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4In ye daye of thy byrth when thou wast borne, ye stringe of thy nauel was not cut of: thou wast not bathed in water to make the clene: Thou wast nether rubbed wt salt, ner swedled in cloutes:

    5No man regarded the so moch, as to do eny of these thinges for ye, or to shewe the soch fauoure, but thou wast vtterly cast out vpon ye felde, yee despised wast thou in the daye of thy byrth.

  • Ps 73:14
    70%

    14Wherfore shulde I be then punyshed daylie, & be chastened euery mornynge?

  • Deut 28:16-19
    4 verses
    70%

    16Cursed shalt thou be in the towne, and cursed in ye felde:

    17cursed shal thy basket be, and thy stoare.

    18Cursed shall be the frute of thy body, the frute of thy londe, the frute of thine oxen, and the frute of thy shepe.

    19Cursed shalt thou be whan thou goest in, and cursed wha thou goest out.

  • Job 14:1
    69%

    1Man that is borne of a woman, hath but a shorte tyme to lyue, and is full of dyuerse miseries.

  • Ps 109:14
    69%

    14Let them be allwaye before the LORDE, but as for the memoriall of them selues, let it perish from out of the earth.

  • Prov 20:20
    69%

    20Who so curseth his father and mother, his light shalbe put out in the myddest of darcknesse.

  • Job 1:21
    69%

    21and sayde: Naked came I out of my mothers wombe, and naked shall I turne thither agayne. The LORDE gaue, and the LORDE hath taken awaye (the LORDE hath done his pleasure) now blessed be ye name off the LORDE.

  • Ps 22:10
    69%

    10I haue bene left vnto the euer sence I was borne, thou art my God, eue fro my mothers wombe.

  • Gen 27:13
    69%

    13Then sayde his mother vnto him: That curse be vpon me my sonne, folowe thou my voyce: go thy waye and fetch it me.

  • Job 31:29-30
    2 verses
    69%

    29Haue I euer reioysed at the hurte of myne enemy? Or, was I euer glad, yt eny harme happened vnto him? Oh no,

    30I neuer suffred my mouth to do soch a sinne, as to wysh him euell.

  • Jer 20:13
    69%

    13Synge vnto the LORDE, and prayse him, for he hath delyuered the soule off the oppressed, from the honde off the violent.

  • Num 23:8
    69%

    8How shall I curse, whom God curseth not? How shal I defye, whom ye LORDE defyeth not?

  • Lam 3:14
    68%

    14I am laughed to scorne of all my people, they make songes vpon me all ye daye loge.

  • Job 17:14
    68%

    14I call corrupcion my father, and the wormes call I my mother and my sister.

  • Lev 20:9
    68%

    9Who so euer curseth his father or his mother, shall dye the death: his bloude be vpon him, because he hath cursed his father or mother.

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

    11And Dauid sayde vnto Abisai and to all his seruauntes: Beholde, my sonne which came of my body, seketh after my lyfe, how moch more now the sonne of Iemini? Let him curse on, for the LORDE hath commaunded him:

    12peraduenture the LORDE shall consydre my aduersyte, and recompence me good for his cursynge this daye.

  • Ps 37:22
    68%

    22Soch as be blessed of him, shal possesse the londe: & they whom he curseth, shalbe roted out.

  • Isa 45:10
    67%

    10Wo be vnto him, yt saieth to his father: why begettest thou? And to his mother: why bearest thou?

  • Jer 22:26
    67%

    26Morouer, I will sende the, and thy mother that bare the, in to a straunge londe, where ye were not borne, ad there shall ye dye.

  • Job 19:18
    67%

    18Yee the very deserte fooles despyse me, and when I am gone from them, they speake euell vpon me.

  • Ps 109:12
    67%

    12Let his ende be destruccion, and in the nexte generacion let his name be clene put out.

  • Job 7:16
    67%

    16I can se no remedy, I shall lyue nomore: O spare me then, for my dayes are but vayne