Jeremiah 20:18

Modern English Version

Why did I come forth from the womb to see trouble and sorrow, so that my days are spent in shame?

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

But he went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough! Now, O  Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

Job 14:1

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

Job 14:13

“Oh, that You would hide me in the grave, that You would conceal me until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time and remember me!

Job 3:20

“Why is light given to the miserable, and life unto the bitter in soul,

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.

Psalm 69:19

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

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it. Wounds, bruises, and open sores; they have not been closed, nor bandaged, nor soothed with oil.

Isaiah 51:7

Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My law; do not fear the reproach of men nor be afraid of their revilings.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me as a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent with usury, nor have men lent to me on usury, yet every one of them curses me!

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain perpetual and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Shall You be altogether to me as a deceptive stream and as waters that fail?

Jeremiah 3:25

We lie down in our shame, and our humiliation 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

My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

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 has inflicted on the day of His fierce anger.

Lamentations 3:1

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

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do You make me see wickedness, and cause me to see trouble? Plundering and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.

John 16:20

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

Acts 5:41

Then they departed from the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.

2 Timothy 1:12

For these things I suffer, but 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 until that Day.

Hebrews 10:36

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

Hebrews 11:36

Still others had trials of mocking and scourging, and even chains and imprisonment.

Hebrews 12:2

Let us look 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 seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 13:13

Therefore let us go forth to Him outside the camp, bearing the reproach that He bore.