Jeremiah 20:18

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?

Cross References

Job 3:20

Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,

Lamentations 3:1

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Job 14:1

Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Psalm 69:19

Thou know my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before thee.

Hebrews 13:13

Let us therefore go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

Hebrews 12:2

Looking to Jesus the pathfinder and perfecter of the faith, who, against the joy set before him, endured a cross, having despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 11:36

And others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, and moreover of bonds and imprisonment.

Hebrews 10:36

For ye have need of perseverance, so that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

2 Timothy 1:12

Because of which reason I also suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to preserve my consignment for that day.

Acts 5:41

Indeed therefore they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were considered worthy to be treated shamefully for the name of Jesus.

John 16:20

Truly, truly, I say to you, that ye will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. Ye will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will become into joy.

Lamentations 1:12

Is it nothing to you, all ye who pass by? Behold, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought upon me. Therewith LORD has afflicted in the day of his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 8:18

Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

Isaiah 51:7

Hearken to me, ye who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Fear ye not the reproach of men, nor be ye dismayed at their revilings.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, [but] wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes. They have not been closed nor bound up nor soothed with oil.

Job 14:13

O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me!

Job 5:7

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Psalm 102:3

For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us lay down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us, for we have sinned against LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of LORD our God.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that thou have bore me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, nor have men lent to me, [yet] every one of them curses me.

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough, now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will thou indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?