Jeremiah 20:14 KJV — MannaFest

Jeremiah 20:14

Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

KJV

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ASV

Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

WEB

Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.

YLT

Cursed is the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed!

DBT

Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed!

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Jeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.

Author: Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
Date: Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile

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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.
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Job 3:1
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
Job 3:3
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

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It seems to be a relation of the ferment he had been in while he was in the stocks, out of which by faith and hope he had recovered himself, rather than a new temptation which he afterwards fell into, and it should come in like that of David ( Ps. xxxi. 22 ), I said in my haste, I am cut off; this is also implied, Ps. lxxvii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), by which it appears that he had sad remainders of corruption in him too, and was a man subject to like passions as we are. The Sin and Doom of Pashur. 1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the L ORD , heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), because it was the beginning of sorrows, and an inlet to all this misery." It is a wish that he had never been born. Judas in hell has reason to wish so ( Matt. xxvi. 24 ), but no man on earth has reason to wish so, because he knows not but he may yet become a vessel of mercy, much less has any good man reason to wish so.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The contrast between the spirit of this passage and the preceding thanksgiving is to be explained thus: to show how great was the deliverance (Jer 20:13), he subjoins a picture of what his wounded spirit had been previous to his deliverance;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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