Jeremiah 20:15

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 21:5-6 : 5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. 6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
  • Jer 1:5 : 5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
  • Luke 1:14 : 14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

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  • 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

  • Jer 20:16-18
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    80%

    16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

    17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

    18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

  • Job 3:2-3
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    2 And spake, and said,

    3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

  • 10 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

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    24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

    25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

  • 10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

  • 16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he suld not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.

  • 25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

  • 21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.

  • 11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

  • 20 A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

  • Gen 27:12-13
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    12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.

    13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.

  • 14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

  • 3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

  • 20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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    16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

    17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

    18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

    19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

  • 30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

  • 20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

  • 19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

  • 3 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

  • 14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

  • 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

  • 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

  • 1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

  • 17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

  • 21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

  • 29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.

  • 22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

  • 16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is ined the firstborn:

  • 6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

  • 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

  • 25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

  • 9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

  • 14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • 14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

  • 11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.

  • 14 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,

  • 5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

  • 11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reoacheth me.