Jeremiah 20:17
because 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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Referenced Verses
- Job 10:18-19 : 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. 19 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Job 3:10-11 : 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?
- Job 3:16 : 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants who never saw light.
- Eccl 6:3 : 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 an untimely birth is better than he:
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18 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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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 suck?
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17 You renew your witnesses against me, And increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
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.
19 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Aren't my days few? Cease then, Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
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9 But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts.
10 I was thrown on you from my mother's womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.
- Jer 20:14-163 verses77%
14 Cursed be the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
15 Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man-child is born to you; making him very glad.
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;
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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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6 I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.
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18 (No, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, Her have I guided from my mother's womb);
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15 Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb?
16 "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
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13 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.
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20 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
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3 "Let the day perish in which I was born, The night which said, 'There is a man-child conceived.'
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5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
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22 You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; There was none that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up has my enemy consumed.
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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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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
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15 My frame wasn't hidden from you, When I was made in secret, Woven together in the depths of the earth.
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13 If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,
14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
15 Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?
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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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20 She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
21 When I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.
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5 No 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.
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18 Yah has punished me severely, But he has not given me over to death.
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20 See, 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.
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19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
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12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.
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3 For I was a son to my father, Tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
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19 your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your loins like the grains of it: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.
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18 "Earth, don't cover my blood, Let my cry have no place to rest.
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1 "My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
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16 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.
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15 So that my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones.
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3 Lest I strip her naked, And make her bare as in the day that she was born, And make her like a wilderness, And set her like a dry land, And kill her with thirst.
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20 He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
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27 Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.