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.


In Context

14 Cursed is the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed!

15 Cursed is the man who bore tidings to my father, saying, 'Born to thee hath been a child — a male,' Making him very glad!

16 Then hath that man been as the cities, That Jehovah overthrew, and repented not, And he hath heard a cry at morning, And a shout at time of noon.

17 Because 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.

18 Why is this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:17For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever.

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 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.