Jeremiah 20:17 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 20:17

because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.

BSB

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ASV

because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

1 voice

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;

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	that	H834 →
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
מוֹתְתַ֖נִי	mo.Ta.ni	he killed me	H4191 →
מֵרָ֑חֶם	me.Ra.chem	from [the] womb	H7358 →
וַתְּהִי־	va.te.hi-	and she became	H1961 →
לִ֤י	li	for <the> me
אִמִּי֙	'i.Mi	mother my	H517 →
קִבְרִ֔י	kiv.Ri	grave my	H6913 →
וְרַחְמָ֖הֿ	ve.rach.Mah	and womb her	H7358 →
הֲרַ֥ת	ha.Rat	[was] pregnant of	H2030 →
עוֹלָֽם׃	o.Lam	perpetuity	H5769 →

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 walk8

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
Ecclesiastes 6:3
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial,…
leads to
- Job 3:16
  Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
- Jeremiah 22:19
  He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
- Ecclesiastes 4:3
  But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
- 2 Kings 9:35
  But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.
- Isaiah 14:19–20
  But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.
Through
Job 3:16
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
leads to
- Psalms 58:8
  Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3
  A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial,…
- 1 Corinthians 15:8
  And last of all He appeared to me also, as to one of untimely birth.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Jeremiah

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Jeremiah