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Jeremiah 20:14–18

Jeremiah 20:14–182 matched frames

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

  • A 14 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
    • B 15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, "A son is born to you," bringing him great joy.
    • B' 16 May 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, 17 because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
  • A' 18 Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
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