Jeremiah 20:14
ContextNET © | Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me. 1 |
NIV © | Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed! |
NASB © | Cursed be the day when I was born; Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me! |
NLT © | Yet I curse the day I was born! May the day of my birth not be blessed. |
MSG © | Curse the day I was born! The day my mother bore me--a curse on it, I say! |
BBE © | A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me. |
NRSV © | Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed! |
NKJV © | Cursed be the day in which I was born! Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me! |
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LXXM | epeukth {N-NSF} |
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NET © | Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me. 1 |
NET © Notes |
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. |