Jeremiah 20:18

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Cross References

Job 3:20

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;

Lamentations 3:1

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Job 14:1

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

Psalm 69:19

Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: Mine adversaries are all before thee.

Hebrews 13:13

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

Hebrews 12:2

looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 11:36

and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

Hebrews 10:36

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

2 Timothy 1:12

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

Acts 5:41

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the Name.

John 16:20

Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

Lamentations 1:12

Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is brought upon me, Wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted me 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 unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye dismayed at their revilings.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.

Job 14:13

Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Job 5:7

But man is born unto 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 lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them doth curse me.

Habakkuk 1:3

Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth 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 Jehovah, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?