Jeremiah 20:17
Verse 17 of 18. The 20th of 52 chapters in Jeremiah, in The Major Prophets.
13Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
15Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
16And 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;
17Because 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.
18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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Jeremiah 20:17 in the World English Bible
because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.Read Jeremiah 20:17 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 20:17
He is angry that the fate of the Hebrews' children in Egypt was not his, that he was not slain from the womb, that his first breath was not his last, and that he was not strangled as soon as he came into the world, v. 17.
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.