Jeremiah 1:5
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5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born I consecrated you;
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”(A)
Jeremiah 15:10
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Jeremiah Complains Again and Is Reassured
10 Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.(A)
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Jeremiah 20:14
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14 Cursed be the day
on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
let it not be blessed!(A)
Jeremiah 20:17
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17 because he did not kill me in the womb;
so my mother would have been my grave
and her womb forever pregnant.(A)
Jeremiah 20:18
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18 Why did I come forth from the womb
to see toil and sorrow
and spend my days in shame?(A)
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