Jeremiah 20:18 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁸ Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in 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?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ Why came I out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?

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 broom tree; and he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am no 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

Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest conceal me until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Job 3:20

“Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,

Job 5:7

but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

Psalm 102:3

For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

Psalm 69:19

Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to thee.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and bleeding wounds; they are not pressed out, or bound up, or softened with oil.

Isaiah 51:7

“Hearken to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of men, and be not dismayed at their revilings.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Wilt thou be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 8:18

My grief is beyond healing, my heart is sick within me.

Lamentations 1:12

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow which was brought upon me, which the Lord inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.

Lamentations 3:1

I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath;

Habakkuk 1:3

Why dost thou make me see wrongs and look upon trouble? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.

John 16:20

Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.

Acts 5:41

Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.

2 Timothy 1:12

and therefore I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.

Hebrews 10:36

For you have need of endurance, so that you may do the will of God and receive what is promised.

Hebrews 11:36

Others suffered mocking and scourging, and even chains and imprisonment.

Hebrews 12:2

looking to Jesus the pioneer 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

Therefore let us go forth to him outside the camp, and bear the abuse he endured.