Jeremiah 20:14

World English Bible (2000)

Cursed is the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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 not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me.
  • Job 3:3-9 : 3 "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.' 4 Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice 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 voice come therein. 8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan. 9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning, 10 because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. 11 "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? 12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse? 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, 14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves; 15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

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  • Jer 20:15-18
    4 verses
    85%

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

    16Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

    17because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

    18Why came I 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%

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

    2Job answered:

    3"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'

    4Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

  • Jer 15:10
    77%

    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 not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    75%

    18"'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

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

    20Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Job 3:7-11
    5 verses
    74%

    7Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

    8Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

    10because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

    11"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

  • Prov 30:11
    74%

    11There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.

  • Job 3:16
    72%

    16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

  • Ps 109:17
    72%

    17Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

  • Deut 27:16
    71%

    16'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Ps 51:5
    71%

    5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

  • Ezek 16:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

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

  • Ps 73:14
    70%

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

  • Deut 28:16-19
    4 verses
    70%

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

    17Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed.

    18The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed.

    19You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed 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%

    14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

  • Prov 20:20
    69%

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

  • Job 1:21
    69%

    21He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh."

  • Ps 22:10
    69%

    10I was thrown on you from my mother's womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.

  • Gen 27:13
    69%

    13His 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 have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

    30(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

  • Jer 20:13
    69%

    13Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

  • Num 23:8
    69%

    8How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

  • Lam 3:14
    68%

    14I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

  • Job 17:14
    68%

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

  • Lev 20:9
    68%

    9"'For everyone who 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%

    11David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, "Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.

    12It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today."

  • Ps 37:22
    68%

    22For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • Isa 45:10
    67%

    10Woe to him who says to a father, 'What have you become the father of?' or to a mother, 'To what have you given birth?'"

  • Jer 22:26
    67%

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

  • Job 19:18
    67%

    18Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

  • Ps 109:12
    67%

    12Let there be none to extend kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

  • Job 7:16
    67%

    16I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.