Jeremiah 20:14
12 O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
13 Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers.
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.
16 May 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,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
- KJV
- Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
- WEB
- Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
- ASV
- Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
- DARBY
- Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed!
- BLB
- Cursed [be] the day in which I was born, the day that my mother bore me—do not let it be blessed!
- ÅB
- Forbannet være den dag jeg ble født! Den dag min mor fødte meg, være ikke velsignet!
- OTB
- Må dagen for min fødsel bli glemt! Må dagen min mor fødte meg ikke bli feiret!
- B1930
- Forbannet være den dag jeg blev født! Den dag min mor fødte mig, være ikke velsignet!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 15:10
Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
Read in contextJob 3:3–16
“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
Read in context