Jeremiah 20:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow and spend my days in shame?

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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

Job 3:20

“Why is light given to one in misery and life to the bitter in soul,

Lamentations 3:1

I am one who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath;

Job 14:1

“A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,

Psalm 69:19

You know the insults I receive and my shame and dishonor; my foes are all known to you.

Hebrews 13:13

Let us then go to him outside the camp and bear the abuse he endured.

Hebrews 12:2

looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 11:36

Others suffered mocking and flogging and even chains and imprisonment.

Hebrews 10:36

For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what was promised.

2 Timothy 1:12

and for this reason I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know the one in whom I have put my trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.

Acts 5:41

As they left the council, they rejoiced that they were considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.

John 16:20

Very truly, I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will have pain, but your pain will turn into joy.

Lamentations 1:12

Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the Lord inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 8:18

My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick.

Isaiah 51:7

Listen to me, you who know righteousness, you people who have my teaching in your hearts; do not fear the reproach of others, and do not be dismayed when they revile you.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot to the head, there is no soundness in it, only bruises and sores and bleeding wounds; they have not been drained or bound up or softened with oil.

Job 14:13

O that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!

Job 5:7

but humans are born to trouble just as sparks fly upward.

Psalm 102:3

For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us, for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our ancestors, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 15:10

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

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do you make me see wrongdoing and look at trouble? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Truly, you are to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail.