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18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Jeremiah 20:18

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Matthew Henry

(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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