Jeremiah 20:17

Jeremiah’s Complaint

16May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon, 17because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged. 18Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?

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Berean Standard Bible
because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
American Standard Version (1901)
because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Bible in Basic English
Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.
Douay-Rheims 1899
Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.
Free Bible Version
because he should have killed me in the womb so that my mother would have been my grave, remaining pregnant forever.
Geneva Bible 1599
Because he hath not slaine me, euen from the wombe, or that my mother might haue bene my graue, or her wobe a perpetual conception.
King James (Authorized) Version
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.
Translation for Translators
I want that to happen to him because he did not kill me before I was born. I wish that I had died in my mother’s womb, and that my mother’s body would have been like [MET] my grave.
Unlocked Literal Bible
because he did not kill me in the womb, making my mother to be my tomb, a womb that was pregnant forever.
Noah Webster Bible
Because he slew me not at my birth; or that my mother might have been my grave, and she had not been delivered.
World English Bible
because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Young's Literal Translation
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.