Jeremiah 20:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Why `is' this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:20 : 20 Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?
  • Job 14:1 : 1 Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
  • Lam 3:1 : 1 I `am' the man `who' hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.
  • Ps 69:19 : 19 Thou -- Thou hast known my reproach, And my shame, and my blushing, Before Thee `are' all mine adversaries.
  • Ps 90:9-9 : 9 For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation. 10 Days of our years, in them `are' seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet `is' their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.
  • 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last -- as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men; 10 we `are' fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we `are' ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured; 11 unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about, 12 and labour, working with `our' own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer; 13 being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become -- of all things an offscouring -- till now.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to that day.
  • Heb 10:36 : 36 for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;
  • Heb 13:13 : 13 now, then, may we go forth unto him without the camp, his reproach bearing;
  • 1 Pet 4:14-16 : 14 if ye be reproached in the name of Christ -- happy `are ye', because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified; 15 for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters; 16 and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect;
  • Gen 3:16-19 : 16 Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband `is' thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.' 17 And to the man He said, `Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed `is' the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life, 18 and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field; 19 by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou `art', and unto dust thou turnest back.'
  • Isa 1:6 : 6 From the sole of the foot -- unto the head, There is no soundness in it, Wound, and bruise, and fresh smiting! They have not been closed nor bound, Nor have they softened with ointment.
  • Isa 51:7 : 7 Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart `is' My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,
  • Jer 8:18 : 18 My refreshing for me `is' sorrow, For me my heart `is' sick.
  • Lam 1:12 : 12 `Is it' nothing to you, all ye passing by the way? Look attentively, and see, If there is any pain like my pain, That He is rolling to me? Whom Jehovah hath afflicted In the day of the fierceness of His anger.
  • John 16:20 : 20 verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become.
  • Acts 5:41 : 41 they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,
  • Job 14:13 : 13 O that in Sheol Thou wouldst conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

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