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Jeremiah 20:14

Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

KJV

Maledicta dies in qua natus sum ! dies in qua peperit me mater mea non sit benedicta !

Vulgate

Ἐπικατάρατος ἡ ἡμέρα ἐν ᾗ ἐτέχθην ἐν αὐτῇ. ἡ ἡμέρα ἐν ᾗ ἔτεκέν με ἡ μήτηρ μου μὴ ἔστω ἐπευκτή·

LXX

Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

ASV

אָר֣וּר הַ/יּ֔וֹם אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֻלַּ֖דְתִּי בּ֑/וֹ י֛וֹם אֲשֶׁר יְלָדַ֥תְ/נִי אִמִּ֖/י אַל יְהִ֥י בָרֽוּךְ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אַל
'l
preposition · 720×
אָר֣וּר
'rvr
verb · 63×
בָּר֥וּךְ
brvk
verb · 324×
הוֹלִ֣יד
hvlyd
verb · 478×
וֹ
v
noun · 220×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 19:4 — But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my l
  • Gen 30:1 — And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
  • Jer 15:10 — Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth cur
  • Job 3:1 — After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
  • Job 3:3 — Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
  • Job 3:3 — Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
  • Job 10:18 — Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
  • Jonah 4:3 — Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
  • Lam 3:17 — And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.