Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Let the day on which I was born be cursed. Don't let the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed.
New American Standard Bible
Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!
King James Version
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Holman Bible
be cursed.
May the day my mother bore me
never be blessed.
A Conservative Version
Cursed be the day in which I was born. Let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
American Standard Version
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Amplified
Cursed be the day on which I was born;
Do not bless the day on which my mother gave birth to me!
Bible in Basic English
A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.
Darby Translation
Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed!
Julia Smith Translation
Cursed the day which I was born in it; the day which my mother brought me forth shall not be blessed.
King James 2000
Cursed be the day on which I was born: let not the day on which my mother bore me be blessed.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Cursed be [the] day [on] which I was born, let not the day [on] which my mother gave birth to me be blessed.
Modern King James verseion
Cursed is the day in which I was born; let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Cursed be the day wherein I was born! Unhappy be the day, wherein my mother brought me forth!
NET Bible
Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.
New Heart English Bible
Cursed is the day in which I was born: do not let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
The Emphasized Bible
Accursed, be the day on which I was born, - The day when my mother bare me, let it not be blessed!
Webster
Cursed be the day in which I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
World English Bible
Cursed is the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Youngs Literal Translation
Cursed is the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed!
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 20:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jeremiah's Lament
13 Sing to the LORD, give praise to the LORD! For he saves the life of the poor from the hand of the wicked. 14 Let the day on which I was born be cursed. Don't let the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed. 15 Cursed is the person who brought the good news to my father, "A baby boy has been born to you," making him very happy.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 15:10
How terrible for me, my mother, that you gave birth to me, a man of strife and contention for the whole land! I've neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
Job 3:3-16
"Let the day when I was born be annihilated, along with the night when it was announced, "It's a boy!'