Jeremiah 20:14
Good News Translation
Curse the day I was born! Forget the day my mother gave me birth!

New Revised Standard Version
Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed!

Contemporary English Version
Put a curse on the day I was born! Don't bless that day.

New American Bible
Cursed be the day on which I was born! May the day my mother gave me birth never be blessed!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed.

Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.

Job 3:3-16 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived. . . .

Context
Jeremiah's Complaint
13Sing ye to the Lord, praise the Lord: because he hath delivered the soul of the poor out of the hand of the wicked. 14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed.15Cursed be the man that brought the tidings to my father, saying: A man child is born to thee: and made him greatly rejoice.…
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4
And he went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord; take away my soul: for I am no better than my fathers.

Job 3:3
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived.

Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.

Jeremiah 20:13
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