Jeremiah’s Complaint
Jeremiah 20:14
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
- KJV
- ¶ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
- WEB
- Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
- ASV
- Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
- LSV
- Cursed [is] the day in which I was born, || The day that my mother bore me, || Let it not be blessed!
- YLT
- Cursed [is] the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed!
- DBY
- Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed!
- DRC
- Cursed be the day wherein I was borne: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed.
- GNV
- Cursed be the day wherein I was borne: and let not the day wherein my mother bare me, be blessed.
- JPS
- Cursed be the day wherein I was born; the day wherein my mother bore me, let it not be blessed.
- LXXE
- Cursed be the day wherein I was born: the day wherein my mother brought me forth, let it not be blessed.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- אָר֣וּר הַיּ֔וֹם אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֻלַּ֖דְתִּי בּ֑וֹ י֛וֹם אֲשֶׁר־יְלָדַ֥תְנִי אִמִּ֖י אַל־יְהִ֥י בָרֽוּךְ׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἐπικατάρατος ἡ ἡμέρα ἐν ᾗ ἐτέχθην ἐν αὐτῇ· ἡ ἡμέρα ἐν ᾗ ἔτεκέν με ἡ μήτηρ μου, μὴ ἔστω ἐπευκτή.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Jeremiah 15:10Woe 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.
- Job 3:3–16“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’ If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it. May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and…
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