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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?
New American Standard Bible
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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?
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?
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?
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 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. 18 Wherefore came I forth of my mother's womb? To have experience of labour and sorrow? And to lead my life with shame?
Cross References
Job 3:20
"Wherefore is the light given to him that is in misery? And life unto them that have heavy hearts?
Lamentations 3:1
{Aleph} I am the man, that, through the rod of his wrath, have experience of misery.
Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of divers miseries.
Psalm 69:19
Thou knowest my reproof, and my shame and my dishonor: mine adversaries are all in thy sight.
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
Me thinketh that God hath set forth us, which are apostles, for the lowest of all: as it were, men appointed to death. For we are a gazingstock unto the world, and to the angels, and to men.
Genesis 3:16-19
And unto the woman he said, "I will surely increase thy sorrow and make thee oft with child, and with pain shalt thou be delivered: And thy lusts shall pertain unto thy husband and he shall rule thee."
Job 14:13
O that thou wouldest keep me, and hide me in the hell, until thy wrath were stilled: and to appoint me a time, wherein thou mightest remember me.
Psalm 90:9-10
For when thou art angry, all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.
Isaiah 1:6
From the sole of the foot unto the head, there is no whole part in all your body: but all are wounds, botches, sores and stripes, which can neither be helped, bound up, mollified, nor eased with any ointment.
Isaiah 51:7
Hearken unto me ye that know righteousness, and so let the people that have my law in their hearts. Fear not the rebukes of man neither faint for their blasphemies.
Jeremiah 8:18
Sorrow is come upon me, and heaviness vexeth my heart:
Lamentations 1:12
{Lamed} O ye all that go fore by, behold and see, if there be any sorrow like unto mine. wherewith the LORD hath troubled me in the day of his fearful wrath.
John 16:20
Verily, verily I say unto you, Ye shall weep and lament, and the world shall rejoice. Ye shall sorrow: but your sorrow shall be turned to joy.
Acts 5:41
And they departed from the council rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for his name.
2 Timothy 1:12
for the which cause I also suffer these things. Nevertheless, I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed, and am sure that he is able keep that which I have committed to his keeping against that day.
Hebrews 10:36
For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Hebrews 11:36
Others tasted of mockings, and scourgings, moreover of bonds and prisonment:
Hebrews 12:2
looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, which for the joy that was set before him, abode the cross, and despised the shame, and is set down on the righthand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 13:13
Let us go forth therefore out of the tents, and suffer rebuke with him.
1 Peter 4:14-16
If ye be railed upon for the name of Christ; happy are ye. For the spirit of glory and the spirit of God resteth upon you. On their part he is evil spoken of: but on your part he is glorified.