Jeremiah 20:18 - The Scriptures 1998

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

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree, and prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, יהוה, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”

Job 14:1

“Man born of woman is of few days and turmoil-filled.

Job 14:13

If only You would hide me in the grave, conceal me until Your wrath turns away. Set me a time, and remember me!

Job 3:20

Why does He give light to the sufferer, and life to the bitter of being,

Job 5:7

for man is born for trouble, and the sparks fly upward.

Psalm 102:3

For my days are consumed like smoke, And my bones are burned like a hearth.

Psalm 69:19

You Yourself know my reproach, And my shame and my confusion; My adversaries are all before You.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot, to the head, there is no soundness in it – wounds and bruises and open sores; they have not been closed or bound up, or soothed with ointment.

Isaiah 51:7

“Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, a people in whose heart is My Torah: do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their revilings.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and a man of contention to all the earth! I have neither lent for interest, nor have men lent to me for interest. All of them are reviling me.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain without end and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Are You to me like a failing stream, as waters not steadfast?

Jeremiah 3:25

“We shall lie down in our shame, while our reproach covers us. For we have sinned against יהוה  our Elohim, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of יהוה  our Elohim.”

Jeremiah 8:18

When in grief I would seek comfort; my heart is sick within me.

Lamentations 1:12

“Is it naught to you, All you who pass by? Look and see if there is any pain like my pain, Which has been brought on me, Which יהוה  has inflicted on me In the day of His burning displeasure.

Lamentations 3:1

I am the man who has seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do You show me wickedness, and cause me to see perversity? For ruin and violence are before me. And there is strife, and contention arises.

John 16:20

“Truly, truly, I say to you that you shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. And you shall be grieved, but your grief shall become joy.

Acts 5:41

Then indeed they went rejoicing from the presence of the council, because they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His Name.

2 Timothy 1:12

For this reason I also suffer these matters, but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to watch over that which I have entrusted to Him until that Day.

Hebrews 10:36

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the desire of Elohim, you receive the promise:

Hebrews 11:36

And others had trial of mockings and floggings and more, of chains and imprisonment.

Hebrews 12:2

looking to the Princely Leader and Perfecter of our belief, יהושע, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the stake, having despised the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of Elohim.

Hebrews 13:13

Let us, then, go to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.