Jeremiah 20:17
“Because he slew me not from the wombe: or that my mother might haue beene my graue, and her wombe to be alwaies great with me.”
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Jeremiah 20:17 Context
15Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying: A man child is borne vnto thee, making him very glad. 16And let that man be as the cities which the Lord ouerthrew and repented not: and let him heare the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noonetide, 17Because he slew me not from the wombe: or that my mother might haue beene my graue, and her wombe to be alwaies great with me. 18Wherefore came I forth out of the wombe to see labour and sorrow, that my daies should be consumed with shame?
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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].
- King James Version
Because he did not kill me before birth, So that my mother would have been my grave, And her womb ever pregnant.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
- American Standard Version (1901)
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.
- Basic English Bible
because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great [with me]!
- Darby Bible
Because he slew me not at my birth; or that my mother might have been my grave, and she had not been delivered.
- Webster's Bible
because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
- World English Bible
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.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Because He slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible