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Jeremiah 20

Jer. 20:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Wherefore came I forth
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
out of the womb
rechem (Hebrew #7358)
the womb (compare 7356)
KJV usage: matrix, womb.
Pronounce: rekh'-em
Origin: from 7355
to see
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
k labor
`amal (Hebrew #5999)
toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind
KJV usage: grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.
Pronounce: aw-mawl'
Origin: from 5998
and sorrow
yagown (Hebrew #3015)
affliction
KJV usage: grief, sorrow.
Pronounce: yaw-gohn'
Origin: from 3013
l, that my days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
should be consumed
kalah (Hebrew #3615)
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when ... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, X fully, X have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Pronounce: kaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
with shame
bosheth (Hebrew #1322)
shame (the feeling and the condition, as well as its cause); by implication (specifically) an idol
KJV usage: ashamed, confusion, + greatly, (put to) shame(-ful thing).
Pronounce: bo'-sheth
Origin: from 954
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Lam. 3:1• 1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. (Lam. 3:1)
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Psa. 90:10• 10The days of our years! in them [are] seventy years,{HR}And if by strength eighty years,{HR}Even their pride [is] trouble and mischief;{HR}For it is soon gone, and we fly away. (Psa. 90:10)

Cross References

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Job 3:20• 20Wherefore giveth he light to the wretched one,{HR}And life to the bitter [in] soul; (Job 3:20)
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Job 14:1,13• 1Man, born of woman,{HR}Is of few days, and full of trouble,
 13O that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol,{HR}Hide me till the turning of thine anger,{HR}Appoint me a set time, and then remember me! (Job 14:1,13)
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Lam. 3:1• 1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. (Lam. 3:1)
to see.
Jer. 8:18• 18My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me! (Jer. 8:18)
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Gen. 3:16‑19• 16Unto the woman he said, Increasing I will increase thy sorrow and thy conception: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; unto thy husband [shall be] thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.
 17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto thy wife's voice, and hast eaten of the tree [of] which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed [be] the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all thy life's days;
 18and thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat herbage of the field;
 19in sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken. For dust [art] thou, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Gen. 3:16‑19)
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Psa. 90:10• 10The days of our years! in them [are] seventy years,{HR}And if by strength eighty years,{HR}Even their pride [is] trouble and mischief;{HR}For it is soon gone, and we fly away. (Psa. 90:10)
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Lam. 1:12• 12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?{HR}Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow,{HR}Which is done unto me, wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. (Lam. 1:12)
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John 16:20• 20Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice; ye shall be grieved, but your grief shall be turned into joy. (John 16:20)
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Heb. 10:36• 36For ye have need of endurance, that having done the will of God ye may receive the promise. (Heb. 10:36)
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Psa. 69:19• 19Thou hast known my reproach,{HR}And my shame, and my disgrace;{HR}Before thee [are] all mine adversaries. (Psa. 69:19)
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Isa. 1:6• 6From the sole of the foot even unto the head, there is no soundness in it : wounds, and weals, and open sores — they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil. (Isa. 1:6)
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Isa. 51:7• 7Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart [is] my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye dismayed at their revilings. (Isa. 51:7)
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Acts 5:41• 41They therefore went their way from [the] presence of the council rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to be dishonoured for the Name. (Acts 5:41)
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1 Cor. 4:9‑13• 9For, I think, b God set us the apostles last as devoted to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, to both angels and men:
 10we, fools for Christ, but ye prudent in Christ; we weak, but ye strong; ye illustrious, but we disgraced.
 11Until the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked and are buffeted and are homeless wanderers,
 12and we toil, working with our own hands; reviled, we bless, persecuted, we suffer;
 13slandered, we beseech. We became as the world's scum, off-scouring of all, until now. (1 Cor. 4:9‑13)
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2 Tim. 1:12• 12For which cause also I suffer these things; yet I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed; and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have entrusted against that day. (2 Tim. 1:12)
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Heb. 11:36• 36and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea and of bonds and imprisonment. (Heb. 11:36)
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Heb. 12:2• 2looking off unto Jesus the leader and completer of faith; who for the joy set before him endured cross, despising shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God. (Heb. 12:2)
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Heb. 13:13• 13Therefore let us go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. (Heb. 13:13)
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1 Peter 4:14‑16• 14If ye are reproached in Christ's name, blessed [are ye], because the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you: [on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified].
 15For let none of you suffer as murderer or thief or evil-doer, or as spy on another's matter;
 16but if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed but glorify God in this name. (1 Peter 4:14‑16)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)