Jeremiah 20:18

New Century Version

Why did I have to come out of my mother’s body? All I have known is trouble and sorrow, and my life will end in shame.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

Then Elijah walked for a whole day into the desert. He sat down under a bush and asked to die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he prayed. “Let me die. I am no better than my ancestors.”

Job 14:1

“All of us born to women live only a few days and have lots of trouble.

Job 14:13

“I wish you would hide me in the grave; hide me until your anger is gone. I wish you would set a time and then remember me!

Job 3:20

“Why is light given to those in misery? Why is life given to those who are so unhappy?

Job 5:7

People produce trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

Psalm 102:3

My life is passing away like smoke, and my bones are burned up with fire.

Psalm 69:19

You see my shame and disgrace. You know all my enemies and what they have said.

Isaiah 1:6

There is no healthy spot from the bottom of your foot to the top of your head; you are covered with wounds, hurts, and open sores that are not cleaned and covered, and no medicine takes away the pain.

Isaiah 51:7

“You people who know what is right should listen to me; you people who follow my teachings should hear what I say. Don’t be afraid of the evil things people say, and don’t be upset by their insults.

Jeremiah 15:10

Mother, I am sorry that you gave birth to me since I must accuse and criticize the whole land. I have not loaned or borrowed anything, but everyone curses me.

Jeremiah 15:18

I don’t understand why my pain has no end. I don’t understand why my injury is not cured or healed. Will you be like a brook that goes dry? Will you be like a spring that stops flowing?

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our disgrace cover us like a blanket. We have sinned against the Lord our God, both we and our ancestors. From our youth until now, we have not obeyed the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 8:18

God, you are my comfort when I am very sad and when I am afraid.

Lamentations 1:12

Jerusalem says, “You who pass by on the road don’t seem to care. Come, look at me and see: Is there any pain like mine? Is there any pain like that he has caused me? The Lord has punished me on the day of his great anger.

Lamentations 3:1

I am a man who has seen the suffering that comes from the rod of the Lord’s anger.

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do you make me see wrong things and make me look at trouble? People are destroying things and hurting others in front of me; they are arguing and fighting.

John 16:20

I tell you the truth, you will cry and be sad, but the world will be happy. You will be sad, but your sadness will become joy.

Acts 5:41

The apostles left the meeting full of joy because they were given the honor of suffering disgrace for Jesus.

2 Timothy 1:12

I am suffering now because I tell the Good News, but I am not ashamed, because I know Jesus, the One in whom I have believed. And I am sure he is able to protect what he has trusted me with until that day.

Hebrews 10:36

You must hold on, so you can do what God wants and receive what he has promised.

Hebrews 11:36

Some were laughed at and beaten. Others were put in chains and thrown into prison.

Hebrews 12:2

Let us look only to Jesus, the One who began our faith and who makes it perfect. He suffered death on the cross. But he accepted the shame as if it were nothing because of the joy that God put before him. And now he is sitting at the right side of God’s throne.

Hebrews 13:13

So let us go to Jesus outside the camp, holding on as he did when we are abused.