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Jeremiah 20:17

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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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  1. Jeremiah 20:15

    Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

  2. 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;

  3. Jeremiah 20:18

    Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.