Jeremiah 20:18 - King James 2000

¹⁸ Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Why was I ever born when all I see is suffering and misery, and my days are filled with shame?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Why did I depart from the womb, so that I would see hardship and sorrow, and so that my days would be consumed by trouble?"

Jeremiah 20:18 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

Job 14:1

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Job 14:13

O 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

Therefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

Job 5:7

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Psalm 102:3

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

Psalm 69:19

You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before you.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither soothed with ointment.

Isaiah 51:7

Hearken unto me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear you not the reproach of men, neither be you afraid of their revilings.

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 men have lent to me for interest; yet everyone of them does curse me.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you be altogether unto me as a deceitful brook, and as waters that fail?

Jeremiah 3:25

We lie down in our shame, and our disgrace covers us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 8:18

When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

Lamentations 1:12

Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

Lamentations 3:1

I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? for plundering and violence are before me: and there are those that raise up strife and contention.

John 16:20

Verily, verily, I say unto you, That you shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

Acts 5:41

And 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 the which cause 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 that which I have committed unto him against that day.

Hebrews 10:36

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

Hebrews 11:36

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

Hebrews 12:2

Looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter 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

Let us go forth therefore unto him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.