Jeremiah 20:18

The Passion Translation

Why was I even born? Was it just to experience toil and sorrow and spend my days in shame?

Cross References

Psalm 102:3

For my days of happiness have gone up in smoke. My body is raging with fever, my heart is sick, and I’m consumed by this illness— withered like a dead leaf. I can’t even eat.

Psalm 69:19

See how they dishonor me in shame and disgrace? You know, Lord, what I’m going through, and you see it all.

Isaiah 1:6

You are corrupt from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head. There is no integrity — nothing but bruises, putrefying sores, and raw open wounds! They have not been drained or bandaged or soothed with oil.

Isaiah 51:7

So listen to me, you who care for what is right, who treasure my teaching in your hearts: Do not fear the insults of others; do not be troubled when they revile you.

Jeremiah 15:10

My mother, how terrible that you ever bore me— a man doomed to conflict and strife with everyone against me! I have never cheated anyone, yet everyone curses me.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why must my pain be endless? Why are my wounds incurable? Why won’t they heal? You’ve been to me like a deceitful spring that stops flowing, like a brook that goes dry.”

Jeremiah 3:25

We deserve to lie down in our shame and be covered by our disgrace. Ever since we were young, we and our ancestors have sinned against our God, Yahweh. We failed to really listen to your voice, Yahweh our God.”

Jeremiah 8:18

My joy has vanished, grief grips my soul, and I am sick at heart.

Lamentations 1:12

“None who passes by even cares. Turn around and look at me! Is there anyone who suffers as much as I? Yahweh, in the terrible day of your fierce anger, you punished me worst of all.

Lamentations 3:1

I am the man acquainted with misery by the rod of his anger.

John 16:20

“Let me make it quite clear: You will weep and be overcome with grief over what happens to me. The unbelieving world will be happy, while you will be filled with sorrow. But know this, your sadness will turn into joy when you see me again!

Acts 5:41

The apostles left there rejoicing, thrilled that God had considered them worthy to suffer disgrace for the name of Jesus.

2 Timothy 1:12

The confidence of my calling enables me to overcome every difficulty without shame, for I have an intimate revelation of this God. And my faith in him convinces me that he is more than able to keep all that I’ve placed in his hands safe and secure until the fullness of his appearing.

Hebrews 10:36

You need the strength of endurance to reveal the poetry of God’s will and then you receive the promise in full.

Hebrews 11:36

Others were mocked and experienced the most severe beating with whips; they were in chains and imprisoned.

Hebrews 12:2

We look away from the natural realm and we focus our attention and expectation onto Jesus who birthed faith within us and who leads us forward into faith’s perfection. His example is this: Because his heart was focused on the joy of knowing that you would be his, he endured the agony of the cross and conquered its humiliation, and now sits exalted at the right hand of the throne of God!

Hebrews 13:13

So we must arise and join him outside the religious “walls” and bear his disgrace.