14 [a]Cursed be the day wherein I was born: and let not the day wherein my mother bare me, be blessed.

15 Cursed be the man that showed my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee, and comforted him.

16 And let that man be as the [b]cities, which the Lord hath overturned and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noon tide,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 20:14 How the children of God are overcome in this battle of the flesh and the Spirit, and into what inconveniences they fall till God raise them up again: read Job 3:1 and Jer. 15:10.
  2. Jeremiah 20:16 Alluding to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Gen. 19:25.

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