SinaiJeremiah 20:17
American Standard Version
because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
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Jeremiah 20:17 in other translations
because he didn’t kill me from the womb.
So my mother would have been my grave,
and her womb always great.
Jeremiah 20:17 in context
- 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 Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;
- 17because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
- 18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?