Jeremiah 20:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Jer 15:10 : 10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on interest, nor men have lent to me on interest; yet every one of them curses me.
  • Job 3:3-9 : 3 Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived. 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. 7 Behold, let that night be barren, let no joyful shout come in it. 8 Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to stir up their lamentation. 9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn: 10 Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes. 11 Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not expire when I came out of the belly? 12 Why were there knees to receive me? Or why breasts that I should nurse? 13 For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have slept: then I would have been at rest, 14 With kings and counselors of the earth, who built ruins for themselves; 15 Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have existed; like infants who never saw light.

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  • Jer 20:15-18
    4 verses
    85%

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

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

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

    18 Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

  • Job 3:1-4
    4 verses
    81%

    1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

    2 And Job spoke, and said,

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

    4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

  • Jer 15:10
    77%

    10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on interest, nor men have lent to me on interest; yet every one of them curses me.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    75%

    18 Why then have You brought me forth out of the womb? Oh, that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

    19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

    20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Job 3:7-11
    5 verses
    74%

    7 Behold, let that night be barren, let no joyful shout come in it.

    8 Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to stir up their lamentation.

    9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn:

    10 Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

    11 Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not expire when I came out of the belly?

  • Prov 30:11
    74%

    11 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

  • Job 3:16
    72%

    16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have existed; like infants who never saw light.

  • Ps 109:17
    72%

    17 As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; as he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.

  • Deut 27:16
    71%

    16 Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Ps 51:5
    71%

    5 Behold, I was shaped in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

  • Ezek 16:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4 And as for your nativity, on the day you were born your navel was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

    5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion upon you; but you were cast out into the open field, to the loathing of your person, on the day you were born.

  • Ps 73:14
    70%

    14 For all day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning.

  • Deut 28:16-19
    4 verses
    70%

    16 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

    17 Cursed shall be your basket and your store.

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

    19 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

  • Job 14:1
    69%

    1 Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

  • Ps 109:14
    69%

    14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be wiped out.

  • Prov 20:20
    69%

    20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

  • Job 1:21
    69%

    21 And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."

  • Ps 22:10
    69%

    10 I was cast upon You from the womb; You are my God from my mother’s belly.

  • Gen 27:13
    69%

    13 And his mother said to him, Let your curse be on me, my son: only obey my voice, and go get them for me.

  • Job 31:29-30
    2 verses
    69%

    29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted myself up when evil found him;

    30 Neither have I allowed my mouth to sin by wishing a curse upon his soul.

  • Jer 20:13
    69%

    13 Sing to the LORD, praise the LORD: for he has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

  • Num 23:8
    69%

    8 How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? Or how shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?

  • Lam 3:14
    68%

    14 I was a ridicule to all my people; their song all the day.

  • Job 17:14
    68%

    14 I have said to corruption, 'You are my father'; to the worm, 'You are my mother, and my sister.'

  • Lev 20:9
    68%

    9 For everyone that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

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

    11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth from my own body, seeks my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? Let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD has bidden him.

    12 It may be that the LORD will look on my affliction, and that the LORD will repay me good for his cursing this day.

  • Ps 37:22
    68%

    22 For those blessed by him shall inherit the earth, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • Isa 45:10
    67%

    10 Woe to him who says to his father, What are you begetting? or to the woman, What have you brought forth?

  • Jer 22:26
    67%

    26 And I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there shall you die.

  • Job 19:18
    67%

    18 Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.

  • Ps 109:12
    67%

    12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

  • Job 7:16
    67%

    16 I loathe it; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are vanity.