Jeremiah 20:18
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Context
This verse from Jeremiah Chapter 20 connects to 10 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
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Why <FI>is<Fi> this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!
Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?
Cross References
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach …
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, …
Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this …
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God …
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto …
Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things …
For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we …
Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.