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Jeremiah 20:17
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KJ21
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.
ASV
because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
AMP
Because he did not kill me before my birth, So that my mother might have been my grave, And her womb always pregnant.
AMPC
Because he did not slay me in the womb, so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always great.
BRG
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.
CSB
because he didn’t kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, her womb eternally pregnant.
CSBA
because he didn’t kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, her womb eternally pregnant.
CEB
because he didn’t kill me in the womb and let my mother become my grave, her womb pregnant forever.
CJB
because God did not put me to death in the womb and let my mother become my grave, her womb forever filled with me.
CEV
He deserves to die for not killing me before I was born. Then my mother's body would have been my grave.
DARBY
because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great [with me]!
DRA
Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.
ERV
because he did not kill me while I was in my mother’s womb. If he had killed me then, my mother would have been my grave, and I would not have been born.
EASY
He should have killed me before I was born. I should have died inside my mother. She would have held me inside her. That would have been my grave for ever.
EHV
because he did not put me to death in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave, and her womb would have been pregnant forever.
ESV
because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.
ESVUK
because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb for ever great.
EXB
because he did not kill me ·before I was born [L in the womb; 1:5]. Then my mother would have been my grave; she would have stayed pregnant forever.
GNV
Because he hath not slain me, even from the womb, or that my mother might have been my grave, or her womb a perpetual conception.
GW
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.
GNT
for not killing me before I was born. Then my mother's womb would have been my grave.
HCSB
because he didn’t kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, her womb eternally pregnant.
ICB
This is because he did not kill me before I was born. Then my mother would have been my grave. I would never have been born.
ISV
because he didn’t kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave and her womb forever pregnant.
JUB
because he did not slay me in the womb, and my mother would have been my grave, and her womb perpetual conception.
KJV
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.
AKJV
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.
LSB
Because he did not put me to death from the womb, So that my mother would have been my grave, And her womb ever pregnant.
LEB
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.
TLB
because he did not kill me at my birth! Oh, that I had died within my mother’s womb, that it had been my grave!
MSG
Curse the day I was born! The day my mother bore me— a curse on it, I say! And curse the man who delivered the news to my father: “You’ve got a new baby—a boy baby!” (How happy it made him.) Let that birth notice be blacked out, deleted from the records, And the man who brought it haunted to his death with the bad news he brought. He should have killed me before I was born, with that womb as my tomb, My mother pregnant for the rest of her life with a baby dead in her womb. Why, oh why, did I ever leave that womb? Life’s been nothing but trouble and tears, and what’s coming is more of the same.
MEV
because he did not kill me from the womb, so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb be always pregnant.
NOG
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.
NABRE
because he did not kill me in the womb! Then my mother would have been my grave, her womb confining me forever.
NASB
Because he did not kill me before birth, So that my mother would have been my grave, And her womb forever pregnant.
NASB1995
Because he did not kill me before birth, So that my mother would have been my grave, And her womb ever pregnant.
NCB
because he did not kill me in the womb. Then my mother would have been my grave, with her womb confining me forever.
NCV
because he did not kill me before I was born. Then my mother would have been my grave; she would have stayed pregnant forever.
NET
For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.
NIRV
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.
NIV
For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever.
NIVUK
For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged for ever.
NKJV
Because he did not kill me from the womb, That my mother might have been my grave, And her womb always enlarged with me.
NLV
For he did not kill me before I was born, so that my mother’s body would have been my grave.
NLT
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!
NRSVA
because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb for ever great.
NRSVACE
because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb for ever great.
NRSVCE
because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.
NRSVUE
because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave and her womb forever pregnant.
OJB
Because he slaughtered me not from the womb; or that immi might have been my kever, and olam (forever) her womb enlarged.
RGT
because he did not kill me in the womb, so that my mother might have been my grave, or her womb a perpetual conception.
RSV
because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb for ever great.
RSVCE
because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb for ever great.
TLV
since he did not kill me in the womb, so my mother might have been my grave— her womb filled forever.
VOICE
For he did not kill me before I was born so my mother’s womb would become my grave— my mother’s womb forever enlarged.
WEB
because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
WYC
he that killed not me from the womb, hear cry early, and yelling in the time of midday; that my mother were [made] a sepulchre to me, and her womb were an everlasting conceiving. [that me (he) slew not from the privy womb; that made were to me my mother a sepulchre, and her privy womb conceiving everlasting. (that he did not kill me in the womb; so that my mother was made a tomb for me, and within her womb I was an everlasting conception.)] (because the Lord did not kill me in the womb, so that my mother was made my tomb, and I was an everlasting, or never born, conception, within her womb.)
YLT
Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.
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