Jeremiah 20:17 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁷ And after this, saith the Lord, I will give Sedecias the king of Juda, and his servants, and his people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, and the sword , and the famine, into the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword, and he shall not be moved to pity, nor spare them, nor shew mercy on them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Because he did not slay me in the womb, so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always great.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ because he didn’t kill me in the womb and let my mother become my grave, her womb pregnant forever.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ So let him be, who did not put me to death from the womb, so that my mother would have been my sepulcher, and her womb would have been my eternal resting place!

Jeremiah 20:17 Cross References

Job 3:16

1 That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:

Ecclesiastes 6:3

0 He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.

Jeremiah 15:10

8 Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed? it is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful waters that cannot be trusted.