Jeremiah 20:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

Jeremiah 20:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Job 3:3-16
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-18)

What is the meaning of this? Does there proceed out of the same mouth blessing and cursing? Could he that said so cheerfully (Jer. 20:13), Sing unto the Lord, praise you the Lord, say so passionately (Jer. 20:14), Cursed be the day wherein I was born? How shall we reconcile these? What we have in these verses the prophet records, I suppose, to his own shame, as he had recorded that in the foregoin…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14-18. The contrast between the spirit of this passage and the preceding thanksgiving is to be explained thus: to show how great was the deliverance (Jr 20:13), he subjoins a picture of what his wounded spirit had been previous to his deliverance; I had said in the time of my imprisonment, “Cursed be the day”; my feeling was that of Job (Job 3:3, 10, 11, whose words Jeremiah therefore copies). Tho…