11 “Why (A)did I not die at birth,
    come out from the womb and expire?

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11 “Why did I not perish at birth,
    and die as I came from the womb?(A)

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“Listen to me, O house of Jacob,
    all the remnant of the house of Israel,
(A)who have been borne by me from before your birth,
    carried from the womb;

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“Listen(A) to me, you descendants of Jacob,
    all the remnant(B) of the people of Israel,
you whom I have upheld since your birth,(C)
    and have carried(D) since you were born.(E)

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18 (A)“Why did you bring me out from the womb?
    Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
19 (B)and were as though I had not been,
    carried from the womb to the grave.

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18 “Why then did you bring me out of the womb?(A)
    I wish I had died before any eye saw me.(B)
19 If only I had never come into being,
    or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!(C)

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14 Give them, O Lord
    what will you give?
Give them (A)a miscarrying womb
    and dry breasts.

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14 Give them, Lord
    what will you give them?
Give them wombs that miscarry
    and breasts that are dry.(A)

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Jeremiah's Complaint

10 (A)Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! (B)I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

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10 Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth,(A)
    a man with whom the whole land strives and contends!(B)
I have neither lent(C) nor borrowed,
    yet everyone curses(D) me.

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13 For you (A)formed my inward parts;
    you (B)knitted me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.[a]
(C)Wonderful are your works;
    my soul knows it very well.
15 (D)My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
    intricately woven in (E)the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your (F)book were written, every one of them,
    the days that were formed for me,
    when as yet there was none of them.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 139:14 Or for I am fearfully set apart

13 For you created my inmost being;(A)
    you knit me together(B) in my mother’s womb.(C)
14 I praise you(D) because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,(E)
    I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made(F) in the secret place,
    when I was woven together(G) in the depths of the earth.(H)
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained(I) for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.

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Upon you I have leaned (A)from before my birth;
    you are he who (B)took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

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From birth(A) I have relied on you;
    you brought me forth from my mother’s womb.(B)
    I will ever praise(C) you.

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Let them be like the snail (A)that dissolves into slime,
    like (B)the stillborn child who never sees the sun.

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May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along,(A)
    like a stillborn child(B) that never sees the sun.

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Yet you are he who (A)took me from the womb;
    you made me trust you at my mother's breasts.
10 On you was I cast from my birth,
    and from (B)my mother's womb you have been my God.

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Yet you brought me out of the womb;(A)
    you made me trust(B) in you, even at my mother’s breast.
10 From birth(C) I was cast on you;
    from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

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