Jeremiah 20:18

Coverdale Bible (1535)

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

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  • Job 3:20 : 20 Wherfore is the light geuen, to him that is in mysery? and life vnto them, that haue heuy hertes?
  • Job 14:1 : 1 Man that is borne of a woman, hath but a shorte tyme to lyue, and is full of dyuerse miseries.
  • Lam 3:1 : 1 I am the ma, that (thorow the rodd of his wrath) haue experiece of misery.
  • Ps 69:19 : 19 Drawe nye vnto my soule, and saue it: Oh delyuer me because of myne enemies.
  • Ps 90:9-9 : 9 For when thou art angrie, all or dayes are gone, we brynge or yeares to an ende, as it were a tayle that is tolde. 10 The dayes of oure age are iij. score yeares & ten: & though men be so stronge that they come to iiij. score yeares, yet is their strength then but laboure and sorowe: so soone passeth it awaye, & we are gone.
  • 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 Me thynketh that God hath set forth vs Apostles for the lowest off all, euen as those that are appoynted vnto death. For we are a gasynge stocke vnto ye worlde and to the angels, and vnto men. 10 We are fooles for Christes sake, but ye are wyse in Christ: We weake, but ye stroge: Ye honorable, but we despysed. 11 Euen vnto this daye we hoger and thyrst, and are naked, and are boffetted with fystes, and haue no certayne dwellinge place, 12 and laboure and worke with oure awne handes. We are reuyled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffre it: 13 We are euell spoken of, and we praye: We are become as it were the very outswepinges of ye worlde, yee the of scowringe of all men vnto this tyme.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 for the which cause I also suffre these thinges, neuertheles I am not ashamed. For I knowe whom I haue beleued, and am sure that he is able to kepe that which I haue commytted vnto his kepynge agaynst that daye.
  • Heb 10:36 : 36 For ye haue nede of pacience, that after ye haue done the wil of God, ye mighte receaue the promes.
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 Other taisted of mockinges and scourginges, of bondes also and presonment:
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 lokynge vnto Iesus ye auctor and fynissher of faith: which whan the ioye was layed before him, abode the crosse, and despysed the shame, and is set downe on ye righte hade of ye trone of God.
  • Heb 13:13 : 13 Let vs go forth therfore out of the tentes, and suffre rebuke with him:
  • 1 Pet 4:14-16 : 14 Yf ye be reuyled for ye name of Christ, blessed are ye, for ye sprete (which is ye sprete of glory & of God) resteth vpon you. On their parte he is euell spoken of, but on yor parte he is praysed. 15 But se that none of you suffre as a murthurer, or as a thefe, or as an euell doer, or as a busy body in other mens matters. 16 Yf eny man suffre as a Christen man, let him not be ashamed, but let him prayse God on this behalfe.
  • Gen 3:16-19 : 16 And vnto the woman he sayde: I will increase thy sorow, whan thou art with childe: with payne shalt thou beare thy childre, and thy lust shal pertayne vnto yi husbande, and he shal rule the. 17 And vnto Adam he sayde: For so moch as thou hast herkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tre, wherof I commaunded the, sayenge: thou shalt not eate of it. Cursed be ye earth for thy sake. With sorowe shalt thou eate therof, all the dayes of thy life. 18 Thornes and thistles shalt it beare vnto the, and thou shalt eate the herbes of the felde. 19 In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate thy bred, tyll thou be turned agayne vnto earth, whece thou art take: for earth thou art, and vnto earth shalt thou be turned agayne.
  • Isa 1:6 : 6 From the sole of the foote vnto the heade, there is no whole parte in all yor body: but all are woundes, botches, sores and strypes, which can nether be helped, bounde vp, molified, ner eased with eny oyntment.
  • Isa 51:7 : 7 Therfore hercken vnto me, ye yt haue pleasure in rightuousnes, thou people that bearest my lawe in thine herte. Feare not the curse of men, be not afrayde of their blasphemies & reuylinges:
  • Jer 8:18 : 18 Sorowe is come vpon me, and heuynes vexeth my herte:
  • Lam 1:12 : 12 O ye all that go fore by, beholde and se, yf there be eny sorowe like vnto myne, wherwith the LORDE hath troubled me, in the daye of his fearefull wrath.
  • John 16:20 : 20 Verely verely I saye vnto you: Ye shal wepe and lamente, but the worlde shal reioyse: Ye shal be sory, but youre sorowe shal be turned in to ioye.
  • Acts 5:41 : 41 But they departed from the presence of the councell, reioysinge, that they were worthy to suffre rebuke for his names sake.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 O that thou woldest kepe me, and hyde me in the hell, vntill thy wrath were stilled: & to appoynte me a tyme, wherin thou mightest remembre me.

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  • 17 because 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.

  • Job 10:18-20
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    18 Wherfore hast thou brought me out of my mothers wombe? O that I had perished, & that no eye had sene me.

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

    20 Shall 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 3:10-12
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    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?

  • Jer 20:14-15
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    14 Cursed be the daye, wherein I was borne: vnhappie be ye daye, where in my mother brought me forth.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9 But thou art he that toke me out of my mothers wobe: thou wast my hope, when I hanged yet vpon my mothers brestes.

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

  • 18 (for mercy grewe vp with me fro my youth, & compassion fro my mothers wombe.)

  • Job 17:14-15
    2 verses
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    14 I call corrupcion my father, and the wormes call I my mother and my sister.

    15 What helpeth then my longe tarienge? Or, who wil fulfill the thinge, that I loke for?

  • 15 Like as he came naked out of his mothers wombe, so goeth he thither agayne, and carieth nothinge awaye with him of all his laboure.

  • 3 With this, the raynes of my backe were ful of payne: Panges came vpon me, as vpon a woman in hir trauayle. When I herde it, I was abasshed: and whe I loked vp, I was afrayde.

  • 13 Therfore shall sorowes come vpon him, as vpon a woman that traualeth. An vndiscrete sonne is he: for he considreth not, that he shulde not haue bene able to haue endured in the tyme of his byrth,

  • 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.

  • 21 and 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.

  • 20 Considre (O LORDE) how I am troubled, my wombe is disquieted, my herte turneth aboute in me, and I am full of heuynes. The swearde hurteth me without, and within I am like vnto death.

  • 16 My face is swolle with wepinge, & myne eyes are waxen dymne.

  • 6 I am become a wonder vnto the multitude, but my sure trust is in the.

  • 5 No 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.

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

  • 10 Haue mercy vpon me, O LORDE, for I am in trouble, myne eye is consumed for very heuynesse, yee my soule and my body.

  • 15 He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shappen alyke in oure mothers bodies?

  • 19 Alas, how am I hurte? Alas, how panefull are my scourges vnto me? For I cosidre this sorow by my self, & I must suffre it,

  • 10 I thought I shulde haue gone to the gates of hell in my best age, and haue wanted the residue of my yeares.

  • 19 I am eue as it were claye, & am become like asshes & dust.

  • 17 I am redy to suffre trouble, and my heuynesse is euer in my sight.

  • 13 O that thou woldest kepe me, and hyde me in the hell, vntill thy wrath were stilled: & to appoynte me a tyme, wherin thou mightest remembre me.

  • 24 This is the cause, that I syghe before I eate, and my roaringes fall out like a water floude.

  • Isa 26:17-18
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    17 Like as a wife wt childe (whe hir trauayle cometh vpo her) is ashamed, crieth and suffreth the payne: Eue so are we (o LORDE) in thy sight.

    18 We are with childe, we trauayle, & beare, & with the sprete we bringe forth health, wherethorow the earth is vndestroyed, and the inhabitours of the worlde perish not.

  • 29 Yf I be then a wicked one, why haue I laboured in vayne?

  • 6 I am brought into so greate trouble and misery, that I go mournynge all the daye longe.

  • 18 Sorowe is come vpon me, and heuynes vexeth my herte:

  • 47 Sela. LORDE, how longe wilt thou hyde thy self? For euer? shal thy wrath burne like fyre?

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

  • 1 My breth fayleth, my dayes are shortened, I am harde at deathes dore.

  • 13 From aboue hath he sent downe a fyre, in to my bones and chastened me: he hath layed a net for my fete, and throwne me wyde open: he hath made me desolate, so that I must euer be mournynge.

  • 15 Thine eyes se myne vnparfitnesse, they stonde all writte i thy boke:

  • 1 I am the ma, that (thorow the rodd of his wrath) haue experiece of misery.

  • 15 What shal I speake or say, ethat he maye this doo? yt I maye lyue out all my yeares, yee in the bytternesse of my life?

  • 11 What power haue I to endure? Or? what is myne ende, that my soule might be paciet?