Jeremiah 20:17
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
KJV
qui non me interfecit a vulva, ut fieret mihi mater mea sepulchrum, et vulva ejus conceptus æternus !
Vulgate
ὅτι οὐκ ἀπέκτεινέν με ἐν μήτρᾳ καὶ ἐγένετό μοι ἡ μήτηρ μου τάφος μου καὶ ἡ μήτρα συλλήμψεως αἰωνίας.
LXX
because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
ASV
אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא מוֹתְתַ֖/נִי מֵ/רָ֑חֶם וַ/תְּהִי לִ֤/י אִמִּ/י֙ קִבְרִ֔/י וְ/רַחְמָ֖/הֿ הֲרַ֥ת עוֹלָֽם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
הָרָה֙
hrh
adjective · 16×
הוּ
hv
verb · 834×
וֹ
v
noun · 220×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
עוֹלָֽם
'vlm
noun · 427×
קָ֑בֶר
qbr
noun · 67×
רֶ֖חֶם
rchm
noun · 26×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Eccl 6:3 — If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is
- Job 3:10 — Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
- Job 3:10 — Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
- Job 3:16 — Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
- 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!