Bible in Basic English
"Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever."
— Jeremiah 20:17, Bible in Basic English
“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.”
“because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. ”
“because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.”
“For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.”
“Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.”
“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.”
A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.
A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad.
May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;
Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.
Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?