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Jeremiah 20:18

Discouragement and depressionGriefShameExhaustion

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;

17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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BSB
Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
KJV
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
WEB
Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
ASV
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
DARBY
Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?
BLB
Why [is] this—[that] from the womb I came forth to see trouble and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
ÅB
Hvorfor kom jeg da ut av mors liv til å se strev og sorg og ende mine dager i skam?
[^1]: redsel rundt omkring; JER 20, 10; 6, 25.
OTB
Hvorfor kom jeg ut av mors liv for å se motgang og sorg, og for å ende mine dager i vanære?
B1930
Hvorfor kom jeg da ut av mors liv til å se møie og sorg og ende mine dager i skam?

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Cross references

  • Job 3:20

    Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

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  • Job 14:1

    Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

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  • Lamentations 3:1

    I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

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  • 1 Peter 4:14–16

    If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

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  • 1 Corinthians 4:9–13

    For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

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  • Psalms 90:9–10

    For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

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  • Psalms 69:19

    Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

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  • Hebrews 12:2

    Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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