Parallel Verses
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!
New American Standard Bible
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So that my
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?
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?
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?
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 hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during. 18 Why is this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!
Cross References
Job 3:20
Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?
Lamentations 3:1
I am the man who hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.
Job 14:1
Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
Psalm 69:19
Thou -- Thou hast known my reproach, And my shame, and my blushing, Before Thee are all mine adversaries.
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last -- as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men;
Genesis 3:16-19
Unto the woman He said, 'Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband is thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'
Job 14:13
O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.
Psalm 90:9-10
For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.
Isaiah 1:6
From the sole of the foot -- unto the head, There is no soundness in it, Wound, and bruise, and fresh smiting! They have not been closed nor bound, Nor have they softened with ointment.
Isaiah 51:7
Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart is My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,
Jeremiah 8:18
My refreshing for me is sorrow, For me my heart is sick.
Lamentations 1:12
Is it nothing to you, all ye passing by the way? Look attentively, and see, If there is any pain like my pain, That He is rolling to me? Whom Jehovah hath afflicted In the day of the fierceness of His anger.
John 16:20
verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become.
Acts 5:41
they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,
2 Timothy 1:12
for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to that day.
Hebrews 10:36
for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,
Hebrews 11:36
and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;
Hebrews 12:2
looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;
Hebrews 13:13
now, then, may we go forth unto him without the camp, his reproach bearing;
1 Peter 4:14-16
if ye be reproached in the name of Christ -- happy are ye, because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified;