Jeremías 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.
Context
This verse from Jeremías Chapter 20 connects to 6 cross-references. Después de ser golpeado y puesto en el cepo por Pasur el sacerdote, Jeremías entrega su queja más amarga a Dios: fue engañado y ahora es objeto de burla, pero no puede dejar de profetizar.
Otras traducciones
because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me--my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.
Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.
Referencias cruzadas
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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and …
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the …
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, …