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


In Context

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 my father the news, who made him very glad, saying, "A child is born to you-a son!"

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

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

Jeremiah 20:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:17Because 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. ]

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:17Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:17because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:17because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:17because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother should have been my grave, and her womb always great.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:17Because he slew me not at my birth; or that my mother might have been my grave, and she had not been delivered.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:17because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:17Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me — my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:17Because 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.