Jeremiah 20:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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

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  • Jer 20:14
    85%

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

  • Jer 20:16-18
    3 verses
    80%

    16And 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;

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

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

  • Job 3:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2And Job spoke, and said,

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

  • Isa 45:10
    73%

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

  • Prov 23:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he who begets a wise child shall have joy of him.

    25Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she who bore you shall rejoice.

  • Jer 15:10
    72%

    10Woe 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.

  • Deut 27:16
    72%

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

  • Hos 13:13
    71%

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

  • Prov 17:25
    71%

    25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

  • Prov 17:21
    70%

    21He who begets a fool does so to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

  • Prov 30:11
    70%

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

  • Prov 15:20
    70%

    20A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

  • Gen 27:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12Perhaps my father will feel me, and I will seem to him as a deceiver; and I will bring a curse upon myself, and not a blessing.

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

  • 2 Sam 12:14
    69%

    14However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die.

  • Eccl 6:3
    69%

    3If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, yet his soul is not filled with good, and indeed he has no burial; I say, that a premature birth is better than he.

  • Deut 27:20
    69%

    20Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife; because he uncovers his father's bed. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Deut 28:16-19
    4 verses
    69%

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

    17Cursed shall be your basket and your store.

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

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

  • Jer 22:30
    69%

    30Thus says the LORD, Write this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his descendants shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling anymore in Judah.

  • Prov 20:20
    68%

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:19
    68%

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

  • Jer 16:3
    68%

    3For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land:

  • Luke 1:14
    68%

    14You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth.

  • Job 10:18
    68%

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

  • Deut 21:18
    68%

    18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them,

  • Job 14:1
    68%

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

  • Ps 109:17
    67%

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

  • John 16:21
    67%

    21A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come: but as soon as she has delivered the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a man has been born into the world.

  • Gen 5:29
    67%

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

  • 2 Sam 12:22
    67%

    22He said, While the child was alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell if God will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

  • Deut 21:16
    67%

    16Then it shall be, when he makes his sons to inherit what he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, who is indeed the firstborn:

  • Prov 17:6
    67%

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

  • Job 3:16
    67%

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

  • Gen 9:25
    67%

    25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants he shall be to his brothers.

  • Lev 20:9
    67%

    9For 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.

  • Ps 7:14
    67%

    14Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • Prov 27:14
    67%

    14He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted as a curse to him.

  • 2 Sam 16:11
    67%

    11And 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.

  • Ezek 18:14
    67%

    14Now, if he begets a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and considers and does not do such like,

  • Gen 21:5
    67%

    5And Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

  • Prov 27:11
    67%

    11My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may have an answer for him who reproaches me.