Jeremiah 20:18 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁸ And to this people thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Why was I ever born when all I see is suffering and misery, and my days are filled with shame?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Why did I depart from the womb, so that I would see hardship and sorrow, and so that my days would be consumed by trouble?"

Jeremiah 20:18 Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

And when he was come thither, he abode in a cave: and behold the word of the Lord came unto him, and he said to him: What dost thou here, Elias?

Job 14:1

Depart a little from him, that he may rest, until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.

Job 14:13

8 A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place.

Job 3:20

5 For the fear which I feared hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.

Job 5:7

2 Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:

Psalm 102:3

0 Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.

Psalm 69:19

6 Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.

Isaiah 1:6

4 My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.

Isaiah 51:7

5 But I am the Lord thy God, who trouble the sea, and the waves thereof swell: the Lord of hosts is my name.

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.

Jeremiah 15:18

For thus saith the Lord: Enter not into the house of feasting, neither go thou to mourn, nor to comfort them: because I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, my mercy and commiserations.

Jeremiah 3:25

For this gird yourselves with haircloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned away from us.

Jeremiah 8:18

Let every man take heed of his neighbor, and let his not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully.

Lamentations 1:12

0 Res. Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled: my heart is turned within me, for I am full of bitterness: abroad the sword destroyeth, and at home there is death alike.

Lamentations 3:1

Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.

Habakkuk 1:3

1 Then shall his spirit be changed, and he shall pass, and fall: this is his strength of his god.

John 16:20

8 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again I leave the world, and I go to the Father.

Acts 5:41

And the word of the Lord increased; and the number of the disciples was multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly: a great multitude also of the priests obeyed the faith.

2 Timothy 1:12

Labour as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 10:36

But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God, must believe that he is, and is a rewarder to them that seek him.

Hebrews 11:36

And you have forgotten the consolation, which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord; neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him.

Hebrews 12:2

1 Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield, to them that are exercised by it, the most peaceable fruit of justice.

Hebrews 13:13

2 And I beseech you, brethren, that you suffer this word of consolation. For I have written to you in a few words.