Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
New American Standard Bible
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So that my
King James Version
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Holman Bible
to see only struggle and sorrow,
to end my life in shame?
International Standard Version
Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow, and to finish my life living in shame?
American Standard Version
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Amplified
Why did I come out of the womb
To see trouble and sorrow,
So that my days have been filled with shame?
Bible in Basic English
Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?
Darby Translation
Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore this came I forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, and my days shall be finished with shame?
King James 2000
Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Lexham Expanded Bible
{Why} did I come out from [the] womb, to see toil, and sorrow, and [to] {end my days in shame}?
Modern King James verseion
Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore came I forth of my mother's womb? To have experience of labour and sorrow? And to lead my life with shame?
NET Bible
Why did I ever come forth from my mother's womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.
New Heart English Bible
Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore was it - That from the womb, I came forth, to see labour and pain; and That in shame should my days be consumed!
Webster
Why was I brought into the world to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
World English Bible
Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Youngs Literal Translation
Why is this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!
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
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 20:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jeremiah's Lament
17 because he did not kill me from the womb, and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. 18 Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Cross References
Job 3:20
Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Lamentations 3:1
I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Job 14:1
Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Psalm 69:19
Thou know my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before thee.
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
For I think God has exhibited us the apostles least, as men sentenced to die, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to heavenly agents and to men.
Genesis 3:16-19
To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy childbearing, in pain thou shall bring forth children. And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Job 14:13
O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me!
Psalm 90:9-10
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
Isaiah 1:6
From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, [but] wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes. They have not been closed nor bound up nor soothed with oil.
Isaiah 51:7
Hearken to me, ye who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Fear ye not the reproach of men, nor be ye dismayed at their revilings.
Jeremiah 8:18
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
John 16:20
Truly, truly, I say to you, that ye will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. Ye will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will become into joy.
Acts 5:41
Indeed therefore they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were considered worthy to be treated shamefully for the name of Jesus.
2 Timothy 1:12
Because of which reason I also suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to preserve my consignment for that day.
Hebrews 10:36
For ye have need of perseverance, so that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
Hebrews 11:36
And others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, and moreover of bonds and imprisonment.
Hebrews 12:2
Looking to Jesus the pathfinder and perfecter of the faith, who, against the joy set before him, endured a cross, having despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 13:13
Let us therefore go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.
1 Peter 4:14-16
Blessed are ye if ye are reviled for the name of Christ, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. From them he is indeed blasphemed, but from you he is glorified.