Jeremiah 20:14
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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.

Lexicon
Cursed be
אָר֣וּר (’ā·rūr)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 779: To execrate

the day
הַיּ֔וֹם (hay·yō·wm)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

I was born!
יֻלַּ֖דְתִּי (yul·laḏ·tî)
Verb - QalPass - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

May the day
י֛וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

my mother
אִמִּ֖י (’im·mî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 517: A mother, )

bore me
יְלָדַ֥תְנִי (yə·lā·ḏaṯ·nî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

never
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 408: Not

be blessed.
בָרֽוּךְ׃ (ḇā·rūḵ)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1288: To kneel, to bless God, man, to curse


Additional Translations
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed.

Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

Cursed be the day wherein I was born: the day wherein my mother brought me forth, let it not be blessed.

Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed!

Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

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

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 day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed!
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