Jeremiah 20:18

English Standard Version 2016

Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in 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 under the rod of his wrath;

Job 14:1

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

Psalm 69:19

You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you.

Hebrews 13:13

Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.

Hebrews 12:2

looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 11:36

Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

Hebrews 10:36

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

2 Timothy 1:12

which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.

Acts 5:41

Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.

John 16:20

Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.

Lamentations 1:12

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the Lord inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 8:18

My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick within me.

Isaiah 51:7

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of man, nor be dismayed at their revilings.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.

Job 14:13

Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint 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 pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.

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 he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?