Jeremiah 20:18

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Summary

Jeremiah 20:18

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Came

Job 3:20

Job 14:1

Lamentations 3:1

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With

Bible References

Came

"Why does he give light to one in misery and life to [those] bitter of soul,

"A human being born of a woman [is] short of days and full of troubles.

I am a man who has seen misery, under the rod of his wrath.

To see

"My comfort [is gone] from me, sorrow [is] on me, my heart [is] sick.

To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase {your pain in childbearing}; in pain you shall bear children. And to your husband [shall be] your desire. And he shall rule over you."

As for the days of our years, within them [are] seventy years or if by strength eighty years, and their pride [is] trouble and disaster, for it passes quickly and we fly [away].

Is it nothing to you, {all who pass by}? Look and see if there is sorrow like my sorrow, which was dealt to me, which Yahweh inflicted on the {day of his wrath}.

Truly, truly I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will change to joy.

For you have need of endurance, in order that [after you] have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

With

You know my reproach, my shame and my disgrace. {Fully known} to you are all my adversaries.

From the sole of the foot and up to [the] head there is no health in it; bruise and sore and bleeding wound have not been cleansed, and they have not been bound up and not softened with the oil.

Listen to me, you who know righteousness, people [who have] my teaching in their heart; you must not fear [the] reproach of men, or be terrified because of their abuse.

So they went out from the presence of the Sanhedrin rejoicing, because they had been considered worthy to be dishonored for the sake of the name.

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to people.

for which reason also I suffer these [things]. But [I am] not ashamed, because I know in whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard [what] I have entrusted until that day.

And others {experienced mocking and flogging}, and in addition bonds and imprisonment.

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the originator and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

So we must go out to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

If you are reviled on account of the name of Christ, [you are] blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.