Jeremiah 20:15
Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, A boy is born to you; making him very glad.
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 21:5-6 : 5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him. 6 Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."
- Jer 1:5 : 5 "Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came forth out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed 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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14 Cursed is the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
- Jer 20:16-183 verses80%
16 Let 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;
17 because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
18 Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
- Job 3:2-32 verses77%
2 Job answered:
3 "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'
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10 Woe to him who says to a father, 'What have you become the father of?' or to a mother, 'To what have you given birth?'"
- Prov 23:24-252 verses72%
24 The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
25 Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!
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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.
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16 'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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13 The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn't come to the opening of the womb.
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25 A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
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21 He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
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11 There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.
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20 A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
- Gen 27:12-132 verses69%
12 What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."
13 His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."
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14 However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die."
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3 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:
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20 'Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
- Deut 28:16-194 verses69%
16 You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field.
17 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed.
18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed.
19 You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed when you go out.
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30 Thus says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.
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20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
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19 He said to his father, "My head! My head!" He said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."
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3 For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became the father of them in this land:
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14 You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth.
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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.
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18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
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1 "Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
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17 Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
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21 A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
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29 and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."
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22 He said, "While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, 'Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?'
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16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn:
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6 Children's children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.
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16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
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25 He said, "Canaan is cursed. He will be servant of servants to his brothers."
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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.
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14 Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
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14 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.
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11 David 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.
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14 Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;
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5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.
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11 Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.