Jeremiah 20:14 · KJV
“Cursed {be} the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.”
— Jeremiah 20:14
Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
Cursed {be} the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
Jeremiah 20 — Context
But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, {and} seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
13Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
14Cursed {be} the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
15Cursed {be} the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
16And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
Cross References
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.
Job 3:3-16
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night {in which} it was said, There is a man child conceived.