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Jeremiah 20:17
“because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 20
15
Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, A boy is born to you; making him very glad.
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;
17
because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
18
Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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