| Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein
my mother bare me be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought tidings
to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented
not; and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been
my grave, and her womb to be alsways great with me. Wherefore came
I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be
consumed with shame?
Jeremiah 20: 14-18 (KJV) |
Cursed be the day when I was born; Let the day not be blessed when
my mother bore me! Cursed be the man who grought the news to my father
saying, "A baby boy has been born to you!" and made him very happy.
But let that man be like the cities which the Lord overthrew without relenting,
and let him hear an outcry in the morning and a shout of alarm at noon;
Because he did not kill me before birth, So that my mother would have been
my grave, and her womb ever pregnant. Why did I ever come forth from
the womb to look on trouble and sorrow, so that my days nave been spent
in shame?
Jeremiah 20: 14-18 (New American Standard Version) |
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