14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
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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.
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. …
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 foreg…
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