Jeremiah 20:18
Jeremiah 20:14-18 The Message (MSG)
Curse the day I was born! The day my mother bore me— a curse on it, I say! And curse the man who delivered the news to my father: “You’ve got a new baby—a boy baby!” (How happy it made him.) Let that birth notice be blacked out, deleted from the records, And the man who brought it haunted to his death with the bad news he brought. He should have killed me before I was born, with that womb as my tomb, My mother pregnant for the rest of her life with a baby dead in her womb. Why, oh why, did I ever leave that womb? Life’s been nothing but trouble and tears, and what’s coming is more of the same.
Jeremiah 20:18 King James Version (KJV)
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Jeremiah 20:18 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Why did I ever come forth from the womb To look on trouble and sorrow, So that my days have been spent in shame?
Jeremiah 20:18 New Century Version (NCV)
Why did I have to come out of my mother’s body? All I have known is trouble and sorrow, and my life will end in shame.
Jeremiah 20:18 American Standard Version (ASV)
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Jeremiah 20:18 New International Version (NIV)
Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?
Jeremiah 20:18 New King James Version (NKJV)
Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, That my days should be consumed with shame?
Jeremiah 20:18 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Why did I come out of the womb To see trouble and sorrow, So that my days have been filled with shame?
Jeremiah 20:18 New Living Translation (NLT)
Why was I ever born? My entire life has been filled with trouble, sorrow, and shame.