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Read Full Chapter (Jeremiah 20) Jeremiah 20:16 KJV
"And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;"
Jeremiah Chapter 20, Verse 16
Jeremiah 20:16 in Context (Verses 13–18 KJV)
13
Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
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¶ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
15
Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
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And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
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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.
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Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?