Jeremiah 20:14

King James Version (KJV)

Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

Translations

Jeremiah 20:14 - Amplified Bible

Cursed be the day on which I was born! Let not the day on which my mother bore me be blessed!

Jeremiah 20:14 - American Standard Version

Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

Jeremiah 20:14 - Bible in Basic English

A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.

Jeremiah 20:14 - Darby Bible

Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed!

Jeremiah 20:14 - English Standard Version

Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed!

Jeremiah 20:14 - King James Version

Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

Jeremiah 20:14 - La Biblia de las Americas

Maldito el dìa en que nacì;
el dìa en que me dio a luz mi madre no sea bendito.

Jeremiah 20:14 - The Message

Curse the day
   I was born!
The day my mother bore me—
   a curse on it, I say!
And curse the man who delivered
   the news to my father:
"You’ve got a new baby—a boy baby!"
   (How happy it made him.)
Let that birth notice be blacked out,
   deleted from the records,
And the man who brought it haunted to his death
   with the bad news he brought.
He should have killed me before I was born,
   with that womb as my tomb,
My mother pregnant for the rest of her life
   with a baby dead in her womb.
Why, oh why, did I ever leave that womb?
   Life’s been nothing but trouble and tears,
   and what’s coming is more of the same.

Jeremiah 20:14 - New American Standard Bible

Cursed be the day when I was born; Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!

Jeremiah 20:14 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy

Maldito el dìa en que nacì;
El dìa en que mi madre me dio a luz no sea bendito.

Jeremiah 20:14 - World English Bible

Cursed be the day in which I was born: don`t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

Jeremiah 20:14 - Young's Living Translation

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

Jeremiah 20:14 - Additional Comments

Wow, what emotions Jeremiah has. One moment (vs 13) he is singing and praising God, and now he is cursing his life. Despite the fact that Jeremiah is doing right, that God is behind him, that God is protecting him (vs 13), his life is hard, and the persecution is taking its toll on him.
We should never think that Christianity is guaranteed to be easy, even with a right heart and God's support. We need to be careful to not let challenges draw us away from our faith and relationship with God, like in the parable of the sower (Mark 4:3-20).
How would we act, do what is right and face persecution, or do nothing (or worse yet, deny our faith) and avoid conflict?

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