Jeremiah 20:18

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

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 not better than my fathers.

Job 14:1

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

Job 14:13

O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Job 3:20

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

Job 5:7

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

Psalm 102:3

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

Psalm 69:19

You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before you.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

Isaiah 51:7

Listen to me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear you not the reproach of men, neither be you afraid of their revilings.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them does curse me.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you be altogether to me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

Jeremiah 3:25

We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 8:18

When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

Lamentations 1:12

Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow, which is done to me, with which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

Lamentations 3:1

I AM the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

John 16:20

Truly, truly, I say to you, That you shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

Acts 5:41

And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

2 Timothy 1:12

For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.

Hebrews 10:36

For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.

Hebrews 11:36

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

Hebrews 12:2

Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 13:13

Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.