Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed! New Living Translation Yet I curse the day I was born! May no one celebrate the day of my birth. English Standard Version Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed! Berean Standard Bible Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. King James Bible Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. New King James Version Cursed be the day in which I was born! Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me! New American Standard Bible Cursed be the day when I was born; May the day when my mother gave birth to me not be blessed! NASB 1995 Cursed be the day when I was born; Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me! NASB 1977 Cursed be the day when I was born; Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me! Legacy Standard Bible Cursed be the day when I was born; Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me! Amplified Bible Cursed be the day on which I was born; Do not bless the day on which my mother gave birth to me! Christian Standard Bible May the day I was born be cursed. May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. Holman Christian Standard Bible May the day I was born be cursed. May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. American Standard Version Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Cursed is the day in which I was born, the day when my mother bore me! Let it not be blessed! Brenton Septuagint Translation Cursed be the day wherein I was born: the day wherein my mother brought me forth, let it not be blessed. Contemporary English Version Put a curse on the day I was born! Don't bless that day. Douay-Rheims Bible Cursed be the day wherein I was borne: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed. English Revised Version Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. GOD'S WORD® Translation Cursed is the day that I was born, the day that my mother gave birth to me. May it not be blessed. Good News Translation Curse the day I was born! Forget the day my mother gave me birth! International Standard Version Let the day on which I was born be cursed. Don't let the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed. JPS Tanakh 1917 Cursed be the day Wherein I was born; The day wherein my mother bore me, Let it not be blessed. Literal Standard Version Cursed [is] the day in which I was born, | The day that my mother bore me, | Let it not be blessed! Majority Standard Bible Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. New American Bible Cursed be the day on which I was born! May the day my mother gave me birth never be blessed! NET Bible Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me. New Revised Standard Version Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed! New Heart English Bible Cursed is the day in which I was born: do not let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. Webster's Bible Translation Cursed be the day in which I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. World English Bible Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. Young's Literal Translation Cursed is the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed! Additional Translations ... Context Jeremiah's Complaint…13Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers. 14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. 15Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.… Cross References 1 Kings 19:4 while he himself traveled on a day's journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. "I have had enough, LORD," he said. "Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers." Job 3:3 "May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, 'A boy is conceived.' Jeremiah 15:10 Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me. Treasury of Scripture Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed. Jeremiah 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 curse me. Job 3:3-16 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived… Jump to Previous Bare Birth Blessed Blessing Bore Born Curse Cursed Mother WhereinJump to Next Bare Birth Blessed Blessing Bore Born Curse Cursed Mother WhereinJeremiah 20 1. Pashur, smiting Jeremiah, receives a new name, and a fearful doom.7. Jeremiah complains of contempt; 10. of treachery; 14. and of his birth. (14) Cursed be the day wherein I was born . . .--The apparent strangeness of this relapse from the confidence of the two previous verses into a despair yet deeper than before is best explained by the supposition that it is in no sense part of the same poem or meditation, but a distinct fragment belonging to the same period, and placed in its present position by Jeremiah himself, or by the first editor of his prophecies. By some, indeed, it has been thought that we have here an accidental dislocation, and that Jeremiah 20:14-18 should stand before Jeremiah 20:7. The prophet utters a cry of anguish yet keener than that which now precedes it, and borrows the language of that cry from the book of Job (Jeremiah 3:3). The prophet turned in the depth of his suffering to the words in which the great representative of sufferers had "cursed his day." The question whether we are to blame or to palliate such utterances, how far they harmonise with Christian feeling, is one on which we need not dwell long. It is enough to note (1) that, while we cannot make for them the half-evasive apology which sees in Jeremiah's prayers against his enemies, and in the imprecatory psalms, prophecies rather than prayers, they indicate the same temper as those psalms and prayers indicate when taken in their natural sense, and so help us to understand them; and (2) that in such cases, while we give thanks that we have the blessing of a higher law and the example of a higher life, we are not called upon to apportion praise or blame. It is enough to reverence, to sympathise, to be silent.Verses 14-18. - Jeremiah curses the day of his birth. The passage is a further development of the complaint in Jeremiah 15:10, and stands in no connection with the consolatory close of the preceding passage. There is a very striking parallel in Job 3:3-12, and the question cannot be evaded, Which is the original? It is difficult to believe that Jeremiah copied from an earlier poem. Deep emotion expresses itself in language suggested by the moment; and, even after retouching his discourses, Jeremiah would leave much of the original expression. But impressions of this sort cannot be unreservedly trusted. The argument from parallel passages is only a subsidiary one in the determination of the date of books. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Cursed beאָר֣וּר (’ā·rūr) Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular Strong's 779: To execrate the day הַיּ֔וֹם (hay·yō·wm) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3117: A day I was born! יֻלַּ֖דְתִּי (yul·laḏ·tî) Verb - QalPass - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage May the day י֛וֹם (yō·wm) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3117: A day my mother אִמִּ֖י (’im·mî) Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 517: A mother, ) bore me יְלָדַ֥תְנִי (yə·lā·ḏaṯ·nî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular | first person common singular Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage never אַל־ (’al-) Adverb Strong's 408: Not be blessed. בָרֽוּךְ׃ (ḇā·rūḵ) Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular Strong's 1288: To kneel, to bless God, man, to curse Links Jeremiah 20:14 NIVJeremiah 20:14 NLT Jeremiah 20:14 ESV Jeremiah 20:14 NASB Jeremiah 20:14 KJV Jeremiah 20:14 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 20:14 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 20:14 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 20:14 French Bible Jeremiah 20:14 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 20:14 Cursed be the day in which (Jer.) |
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