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Jeremiah 20:14
Jeremiah 20:14 is verse 14 of Jeremiah chapter 20, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
King James Version
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare 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.
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Jeremiah 20:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible
12 O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
13 Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers.
14 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.
16 May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Jeremiah 15:10Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
Job 3:3“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
Job 3:4If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.
Job 3:5May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
Job 3:6If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.
Job 3:7Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.
Job 3:8May it be cursed by those who curse the day — those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
Job 3:9May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
Job 3:10For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
Job 3:11Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
Job 3:12Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
Job 3:13For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
Job 3:14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
Job 3:15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
Job 3:16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?