Jeremiah 20:18
Jeremiah chapter 20 · verse 18 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Context
v.17because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
v.18This passage
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Corinthians 4:9
For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.
- Job 14:1
Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
- 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 shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Isaiah 51:7
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye dismayed at their revilings.
- Psalms 69:19
Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: Mine adversaries are all before thee.
- Lamentations 1:12
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is brought upon me, Wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.