Jeremiah 20:18

New American Bible - revised edition

Why did I come forth from the womb, to see sorrow and pain, to end my days in shame?

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

and went a day’s journey into the wilderness, until he came to a solitary broom tree and sat beneath it. He prayed for death: “Enough, Lord! Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”

Job 14:1

Man born of woman is short-lived and full of trouble,

Job 14:13

Oh, that you would hide me in Sheol, shelter me till your wrath is past, fix a time to remember me!

Job 3:20

Why is light given to the toilers, life to the bitter in spirit?

Job 5:7

Human beings beget mischief as sparks fly upward.

Psalm 102:3

Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly.

Psalm 69:19

Come and redeem my life; because of my enemies ransom me.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot to the head there is no sound spot in it; Just bruise and welt and oozing wound, not drained, or bandaged, or eased with salve.

Isaiah 51:7

Hear me, you who know justice, you people who have my teaching at heart: Do not fear the reproach of others; remain firm at their revilings.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe to me, my mother, that you gave me birth! a man of strife and contention to all the land! I neither borrow nor lend, yet everyone curses me.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain continuous, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? To me you are like a deceptive brook, waters that cannot be relied on!

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us lie down in our shame, let our disgrace cover us, for we have sinned against the Lord, our God, We and our ancestors, from our youth to this day; we did not listen to the voice of the Lord, our God.”

Jeremiah 8:18

My joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick.

Lamentations 1:12

Come, all who pass by the way, pay attention and see: Is there any pain like my pain, which has been ruthlessly inflicted upon me, With which the Lord has tormented me on the day of his blazing wrath?

Lamentations 3:1

I am one who has known affliction under the rod of God’s anger,

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do you let me see iniquity? why do you simply gaze at evil? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife and discord.

John 16:20

Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.

Acts 5:41

So they left the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been found worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.

2 Timothy 1:12

On this account I am suffering these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know him in whom I have believed and am confident that he is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day.

Hebrews 10:36

You need endurance to do the will of God and receive what he has promised.

Hebrews 11:36

Others endured mockery, scourging, even chains and imprisonment.

Hebrews 12:2

while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfecter of faith. For the sake of the joy that lay before him he endured the cross, despising its shame, and has taken his seat at the right of the throne of God.

Hebrews 13:13

Let us then go to him outside the camp, bearing the reproach that he bore.