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Jeremiah 20:17

17  rbecause he did not kill me in the womb;

so my mother would have been my grave,

and her womb forever great.

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Jeremiah 20:17 — The New International Version (NIV)

17 For he did not kill me in the womb,

with my mother as my grave,

her womb enlarged forever.

Jeremiah 20:17 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

17 Because he slew me not from the womb;

Or that my mother might have been my grave,

And her womb to be always great with me.

Jeremiah 20:17 — New Living Translation (NLT)

17 because he did not kill me at birth.

Oh, that I had died in my mother’s womb,

that her body had been my grave!

Jeremiah 20:17 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

17 Because he did not kill me from the womb,

That my mother might have been my grave,

And her womb always enlarged with me.

Jeremiah 20:17 — New Century Version (NCV)

17 because he did not kill me before I was born.

Then my mother would have been my grave;

she would have stayed pregnant forever.

Jeremiah 20:17 — American Standard Version (ASV)

17 because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

Jeremiah 20:17 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

17 because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!

Jeremiah 20:17 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

17 If only he had killed me while I was in the womb. 

Then my mother would have been my grave, 

and she would have always been pregnant. 

Jeremiah 20:17 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

17 because he didn’t kill me in the womb

so that my mother might have been my grave,

her womb eternally pregnant.

Jeremiah 20:17 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

17 because he did not kill me in the womb;

so my mother would have been my grave,

and her womb forever great.

Jeremiah 20:17 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

17 Because he did not kill me in the womb,

so that my mother would have been for me my grave,

and her womb would be pregnant forever.

Jeremiah 20:17 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

17 He should have killed me in my mother’s body.

He should have made my mother my grave.

He should have let her body stay large forever.

Jeremiah 20:17 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

17 Because he did not kill me before birth,

So that my mother would have been my grave,

And her womb ever pregnant.


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