Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Because I was not slain from the womb, - Nor did my mother become my grave, Nor was her womb great for ever!
New American Standard Bible
So that my mother would have been my grave,
And her womb ever pregnant.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
so that my mother might have been my grave,
her womb eternally pregnant.
International Standard Version
because he didn't kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave and her womb forever pregnant.
A Conservative Version
because he did not kill me from the womb, and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
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.
Amplified
Because he did not kill me before my birth,
So that my mother might have been my grave,
And her womb always pregnant.
Bible in Basic English
Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.
Darby Translation
because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!
Julia Smith Translation
Because he killed me not from the womb, and my mother will be to me my grave, and her womb pregnant forever.
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Because he did not kill me in [the] womb, so that my mother would have been for me my grave, and [her] womb [would be] pregnant forever.
Modern King James verseion
because he did not kill me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
because he slew me not, as soon as I came out of my mother's womb, and because my mother was not my grave herself, that the birth might not have come out, but remained still in her.
NET Bible
For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother's womb my grave forever.
New Heart English Bible
because he did not kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Webster
Because he slew me not at my birth; or that my mother might have been my grave, and she had not been delivered.
World English Bible
because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Youngs Literal Translation
Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.
Themes
Jeremiah » The prophet » His melancholy and complaints against God, in consequence of persecution
Life » Sacredness of, an inference from what is taught in the law concerning murder » Jeremiah
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 20:17
Prayers for Jeremiah 20:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jeremiah's Lament
16 Making him very glad: Yea let that man be - as the cities which Yahweh overthrew and repented not, - And let him hear An outcry in the morning, and A war-shout at broad noon! 17 Because I was not slain from the womb, - Nor did my mother become my grave, Nor was her womb great for ever! 18 Wherefore was it - That from the womb, I came forth, to see labour and pain; and That in shame should my days be consumed!
Cross References
Job 3:10-11
Because it closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes.
Job 10:18-19
Wherefore then, from the womb, didst thou bring me forth? I might have breathed my last, and, no eye, have seen me.
Job 3:16
Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light:
Ecclesiastes 6:3
Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth!