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Jeremiah 20:14

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20:14 Cursed be the day I was born!

May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me. 1 

1 sn From the heights of exaltation, Jeremiah returns to the depths of despair. For similar mood swings in the psalms of lament compare Ps 102. Verses 14-18 are similar in tone and mood to Job 3:1-10. They are very forceful rhetorical ways of Job and Jeremiah expressing the wish that they had never been born.



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