King James Version (KJV)
Jeremiah 20:14
“Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 20
12
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.
13
Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
14
Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
15
Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
16
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;
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