Jeremiah 20:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

Jeremiah 20:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 21:5-6
And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. …
Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Luke 1:14
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

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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. 15)

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…