A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.
MESSAGE
Curse the day I was born! The day my mother bore me--a curse on it, I say!
NKJV
Cursed [be] the day in which I was born! Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!
PHILIPS
RWEBSTR
Cursed [be] the day when I was born: let not the day when my mother bore me be blessed.
GWV
Cursed is the day that I was born, the day that my mother gave birth to me. May it not be blessed.
NET
Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.*
NET
20:14 Cursed be the day I was born!
May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.1183
sn From the heights of exaltation, Jeremiah returns to the depths of despair. For similar mood swings in the psalms of lament compare Ps 102. Verses 14-18 are similar in tone and mood to Job 3:1-10. They are very forceful rhetorical ways of Job and Jeremiah expressing the wish that they had never been born.
Jeremiah 20:14
