Jeremiah 20:18

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Why came I out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?

Cross References

Job 3:20

Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?

Lamentations 3:1

Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.

Job 14:1

Man, born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

Hebrews 13:13

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

Hebrews 12:2

Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 11:36

And others had trial of mockeries and stripes, moreover also of bands and prisons.

Hebrews 10:36

For patience is necessary for you; that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise.

2 Timothy 1:12

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

Acts 5:41

And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus.

John 16:20

Amen, amen I say to you, that you shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice; and you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

Lamentations 1:12

Lamed. O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow: for he hath made a vintage of me, as the Lord spoke in the day of his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 8:18

My sorrow is above sorrow: my heart mourneth within me.

Isaiah 51:7

Hearken to me, you that know what is just, my people who have my law in your heart: fear ye not the reproach of men and be not afraid of their blasphemies.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil.

Job 14:13

Who will grant me this, that thou mayest protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?

Job 5:7

Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.

Psalm 102:3

Who forgiveth all thy iniquities: who healeth all thy diseases.

Jeremiah 3:25

We shall sleep in our confusion, and our shame shall cover us, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers from our youth even to this day: and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother! Why hast thou borne me, a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.

Habakkuk 1:3

Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and grievance, to see rapine and injustice before me? and there is a judgment, but opposition is more powerful.

1 Kings 19:4

And he went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper-tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and said: It is enough for me. Lord, take away my soul; for I am no better than my fathers.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed? It is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful waters that cannot be trusted.