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.
Context
This verse from Jeremiah Chapter 20 connects to 6 cross-references. After being beaten and put in stocks by Pashhur the priest, Jeremiah delivers his most anguished personal confession: God has deceived him and made him a laughingstock. He curses the day of his birth and wishes he had never been …
Other Translations
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.
Cross References
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of …
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, …