Jeremiah 20:14-18

Jeremiah 20:14-18

[14] Cursed  be the day  wherein I was born:  let not the day  wherein my mother  bare  me be blessed.  [15] Cursed  be the man  who brought tidings  to my father,  saying,  A man  child  is born  [16] And let that man  be as the cities  overthrew,  and repented  not: and let him hear  the cry  in the morning,  and the shouting  at noontide;  [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. [18] Wherefore came I forth  out of the womb  to see  labour  and sorrow,  that my days  should be consumed  with shame? 

What does Jeremiah 20:14-18 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

This is another autobiographical "confession." It is a personal Lamentations , or curse poem, concerning the sorrow Jeremiah had experienced for most of his life resulting from the calling that the Lord had laid on him.
"In these verses Jeremiah plumbed the depths of bitterness and despair, revealing a depth of misery and agony surpassing any other cry of anguish recorded among his lamentations." [1]