Jeremiah 20:14 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 20:14

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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;

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

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.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אָר֣וּר	'a.Rur	[is] cursed	H779 →
הַיּ֔וֹם	hai.Yom	the day	H3117 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	when	H834 →
יֻלַּ֖דְתִּי	yu.Lad.ti	I was born	H3205 →
בּ֑וֹ	bo	on <the> it
י֛וֹם	Yom	[the] day	H3117 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	when	H834 →
יְלָדַ֥תְנִי	ye.la.Dat.ni	she bore me	H3205 →
אִמִּ֖י	'i.Mi	mother my	H517 →
אַל־	'al-	may not	H408 →
יְהִ֥י	ye.Hi	it be	H1961 →
בָרֽוּךְ׃	va.Rukh	blessed	H1288 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 15:10
Woe 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.
leads to
- Luke 6:22
  Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.
- Jeremiah 15:20
  Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver…
- Psalms 120:5–6
  Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
- Job 3:1–26
  After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
- Jeremiah 1:18–19
  Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of…

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Jeremiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Jeremiah