Jeremiah 20:17
Jeremiah 20:14-18 The Message (MSG)
Curse the day I was born! The day my mother bore me— a curse on it, I say! And curse the man who delivered the news to my father: “You’ve got a new baby—a boy baby!” (How happy it made him.) Let that birth notice be blacked out, deleted from the records, And the man who brought it haunted to his death with the bad news he brought. He should have killed me before I was born, with that womb as my tomb, My mother pregnant for the rest of her life with a baby dead in her womb. Why, oh why, did I ever leave that womb? Life’s been nothing but trouble and tears, and what’s coming is more of the same.
Jeremiah 20:17 King James Version (KJV)
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.
Jeremiah 20:17 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Because he did not kill me before birth, So that my mother would have been my grave, And her womb ever pregnant.
Jeremiah 20:17 New Century Version (NCV)
because he did not kill me before I was born. Then my mother would have been my grave; she would have stayed pregnant forever.
Jeremiah 20:17 American Standard Version (ASV)
because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Jeremiah 20:17 New International Version (NIV)
For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever.
Jeremiah 20:17 New King James Version (NKJV)
Because he did not kill me from the womb, That my mother might have been my grave, And her womb always enlarged with me.
Jeremiah 20:17 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Because he did not kill me before my birth, So that my mother might have been my grave, And her womb always pregnant.
Jeremiah 20:17 New Living Translation (NLT)
because he did not kill me at birth. Oh, that I had died in my mother’s womb, that her body had been my grave!