Parallel Bible results for "Jeremiah 20:13-18"

Jeremiah 20:13-18

13 Sing to Yahweh, praise you Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evil-doers.

13 Sing to the LORD! Give praise to the LORD! He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of the wicked.

14 Cursed be the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

14 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!

15 Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man-child is born to you; making him very glad.

15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, who made him very glad, saying, “A child is born to you—a son!”

16 Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

16 May that man be like the towns the LORD overthrew without pity. May he hear wailing in the morning, a battle cry at noon.

17 because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

17 For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever.

18 Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

18 Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?

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