King James Version (KJV)
Jeremiah 20:17
“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].”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 20
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;
17
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].
18
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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