The lament “Cursed is the day in which I was born”
"내 생일이 저주를 받았더면" 하는 탄식
Jeremiah 20:14–18: the speaker (“I”) says, “Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, ‘A boy is born to you,’ making him very glad. Let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime, because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?” The Korean Revised Version gives 20:14–16 as wishes (내 생일이 저주를 받았더면, if only the day of my birth had been cursed), where WEB reads “Cursed is the day”, “Cursed is the man” and “Let that man be”.
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- JER 20:14–18, engwebp
14Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
15Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.
16Let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime,
17because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
18Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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Current wording: Jeremiah 20:14–18: the speaker (“I”) says, “Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, ‘A boy is born to you,’ making him very glad. Let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime, because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?” The Korean Revised Version gives 20:14–16 as wishes (내 생일이 저주를 받았더면, if only the day of my birth had been cursed), where WEB reads “Cursed is the day”, “Cursed is the man” and “Let that man be”.
Cited evidence: JER 20:14–18, engwebp
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