Jeremiah 20:14

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.”

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BSBPD

“Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Cursed <FI>is<Fi> the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed!”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Jeremiah 20:14 — 3 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 3:1After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
  2. Job 3:3“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
  3. Jeremiah 15:10Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

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