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Jeremiah 20:15

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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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  1. Jeremiah 20:13

    Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

  2. Jeremiah 20:14

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

  3. Jeremiah 20:16

    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;

  4. Jeremiah 20:17

    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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