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Jeremiah 20:14

Discouragement and depressionGriefIdentity and self-worth

12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.

13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

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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)

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Cross references

  • Jeremiah 15:10

    Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

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  • Job 3:3–16

    Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

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