Jeremiah 20:15

Webster's Bible (1833)

Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man-child 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, and 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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  • Jer 20:14
    85%

    14Cursed be the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

  • Jer 20:16-18
    3 verses
    80%

    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 3:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2Job answered:

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

  • Isa 45:10
    73%

    10Woe to him who says to a father, "What have you become the father of?" or to a woman, "With what do you travail?"

  • Prov 23:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

    25Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you 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 not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me.

  • Deut 27:16
    72%

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

  • Hos 13:13
    71%

    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.

  • Prov 17:25
    71%

    25A foolish son brings grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him.

  • Prov 17:21
    70%

    21He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

  • Prov 30:11
    70%

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

  • Prov 15:20
    70%

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

  • Gen 27:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12What 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."

    13His 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 Yahweh's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die."

  • Eccl 6:3
    69%

    3If 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 an untimely birth is better than he:

  • Deut 27:20
    69%

    20Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say, Amen.

  • Deut 28:16-19
    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 kneading-trough.

    18Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

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

  • Jer 22:30
    69%

    30Thus 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.

  • Prov 20:20
    68%

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:19
    68%

    19He said to his father, My head, my head. He said to his servant, Carry him to his mother.

  • Jer 16:3
    68%

    3For 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:

  • Luke 1:14
    68%

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

  • Job 10:18
    68%

    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.

  • Deut 21:18
    68%

    18If 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;

  • Job 14:1
    68%

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

  • Ps 109:17
    67%

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

  • John 16:21
    67%

    21A 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.

  • Gen 5:29
    67%

    29and 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."

  • 2 Sam 12:22
    67%

    22He 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?

  • Deut 21:16
    67%

    16then 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:

  • Prov 17:6
    67%

    6Children's children are the crown of old men; The glory of children are their parents.

  • Job 3:16
    67%

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

  • Gen 9:25
    67%

    25He said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants will he be to his brothers."

  • Lev 20:9
    67%

    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.

  • Ps 7:14
    67%

    14Behold, he travails with iniquity; Yes, he has conceived mischief, And brought forth falsehood.

  • Prov 27:14
    67%

    14He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, It will be taken as a curse by him.

  • 2 Sam 16:11
    67%

    11David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life: how much more [may] this Benjamite now [do it]? let him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.

  • Ezek 18:14
    67%

    14Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

  • Gen 21:5
    67%

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

  • Prov 27:11
    67%

    11Be wise, my son, And bring joy to my heart, Then I can answer my tormentor.