Jeremiah 20:14-18

¹⁴Cursed be the day I was born!

May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.

¹⁵Cursed be the man who brought my father the news,

saying, “A son is born to you,”

bringing him great joy.

¹⁶May that man be like the cities

that the LORD overthrew without compassion.

May he hear an outcry in the morning

and a battle cry at noon,

¹⁷because he did not kill me in the womb

so that my mother might have been my grave,

and her womb forever enlarged.

¹⁸Why did I come out of the womb

to see only trouble and sorrow,

and to end my days in shame?

— Jeremiah 20:14-18

(BSB)

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Cross References for Jeremiah 20:14-18

• Jeremiah 15:10
• Job 3:10-11
• Job 3:20
• Job 10:18-19
• Job 3:3-16
• 1 Peter 4:14-16
• Lamentations 3:1
• Jeremiah 18:22
• Job 14:1
• Psalm 90:9-10

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