Jeremiah 20:14-18
1599 Geneva Bible
14 ¶ [a]Cursed be the day wherein I was born: and let not the day wherein my mother bare me, be blessed.
15 Cursed be the man that showed my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee, and comforted him.
16 And let that man be as the [b]cities, which the Lord hath overturned and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noon tide,
17 Because he hath not slain me, even from the womb, or that my mother might have been my grave, or her womb a perpetual [c]conception.
18 How is it, that I came forth of the womb, to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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- Jeremiah 20:14 How the children of God are overcome in this battle of the flesh and the Spirit, and into what inconveniences they fall till God raise them up again: read Job 3:1 and Jer. 15:10.
- Jeremiah 20:16 Alluding to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Gen. 19:25.
- Jeremiah 20:17 Meaning, that the fruit thereof might never come to profit.
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