Jeremiah 20:18

American Standard Version

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

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Jeremiah 20:18 in other translations

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

Jeremiah 20:18 · World English Bible

Jeremiah 20:18 in context

  1. 16And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;
  2. 17because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
  3. 18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?