Jeremiah 20:15 · KJV
“Cursed {be} the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.”
— Jeremiah 20:15
Cursed {be} the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
And 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;
Jeremiah 20 — Context
Sing 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;
17Because 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}.
Cross References
Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, {and} I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. {ordained: Heb. gave}
Luke 1:14
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
Genesis 21:5-6
And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.