Jeremiah 20:18

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:20 : 20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
  • Job 14:1 : 1 "Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
  • Lam 3:1 : 1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
  • Ps 69:19 : 19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
  • Ps 90:9-9 : 9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh. 10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
  • 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men. 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor. 11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place. 12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure. 13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
  • Heb 10:36 : 36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • Heb 13:13 : 13 Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
  • 1 Pet 4:14-16 : 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified. 15 For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men's matters. 16 But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
  • Gen 3:16-19 : 16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." 17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. 19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
  • Isa 1:6 : 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.
  • Isa 51:7 : 7 "Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; don't fear the reproach of men, neither be dismayed at their insults.
  • Jer 8:18 : 18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
  • Lam 1:12 : 12 Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.
  • John 16:20 : 20 Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
  • Acts 5:41 : 41 They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus' name.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

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

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  • Job 3:10-12
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  • Jer 20:14-15
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    14Cursed 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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  • Job 3:16
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    16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

  • Job 3:3
    75%

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

  • Job 14:1
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    1"Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

  • Ps 51:5
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    5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts.

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  • Job 31:18
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  • Job 17:14-15
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    15As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

  • Isa 21:3
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    3Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed that I can't see.

  • Hos 13:13
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    13The 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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    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.

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    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."

  • Lam 1:20
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    20See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

  • Job 16:16
    71%

    16My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

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    71%

    6I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.

  • Ezek 16:5
    70%

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

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    15Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb?

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    10I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."

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    70%

    19He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

  • Ps 38:17
    70%

    17For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

  • Job 14:13
    70%

    13"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

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    24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

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    17Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Yahweh.

    18We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

  • Job 9:29
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    29I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

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    6I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

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    18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

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    47Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

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    6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

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    1"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.

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    15My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

  • Lam 3:1
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    1I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

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    15What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

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    11What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?