Jeremiah 20:18

New King James Version

Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, That my days should be consumed with shame?

Cross References

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 prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”

Job 14:1

“Man who is born of 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 him who is in misery, And life to the bitter of soul,

Job 5:7

Yet man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward.

Psalm 102:3

For my days are consumed like smoke, And my bones are burned like a hearth.

Psalm 69:19

You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor; My adversaries are all before You.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even to the head, There is no soundness in it, But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; They have not been closed or bound up, Or soothed with ointment.

Isaiah 51:7

“Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, You people in whose heart is My law: Do not fear the reproach of men, Nor be afraid of their insults.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, That you have borne me, A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent for interest, Nor have men lent to me for interest. Every one of them curses me.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain perpetual And my wound incurable, Which refuses to be healed? Will You surely be to me like an unreliable stream, As waters that fail?

Jeremiah 3:25

We lie down in our shame, And our reproach 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

I would comfort myself in sorrow; My heart is faint in me.

Lamentations 1:12

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold and see If there is any sorrow like my sorrow, Which has been brought on me, Which the Lord has inflicted In 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 show me iniquity, And cause me to see trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; There is strife, and contention arises.

John 16:20

Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

Acts 5:41

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

2 Timothy 1:12

For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.

Hebrews 10:36

For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

Hebrews 11:36

Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment.

Hebrews 12:2

looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 13:13

Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.