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Whyלָמָּה זֶּהdid I come outיָצָאתִיfrom the wombמֵרֶחֶםto seeלִרְאוֹתsufferingעָמָלand sorrow,וְיָגוֹןand that my daysוַ יָמָיshould be consumedיִּכְלוּin shame?בְּבֹשֶׁת
Jeremiah 20:18
Study it in the app“Why did I come out from the womb to see suffering and sorrow, and that my days should be consumed in shame?”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 20:18, word by word
- did I come outיָצָאתִיyatsati
spring up
To spring up, be born, come from something.
Where else “yatsati” appears- from the wombרֶחֶםrechem
womb
The part of a mother's body where the child grows before birth.
Where else “rechem” appears- to seeרְאוֹתreot
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “reot” appears- sufferingעָמָלamal
suffering
Pain one goes through, or harm done to others.
Where else “amal” appears- and sorrowיָגוֹןyagon
sorrow, grief
Deep sorrow, grief.
Where else “yagon” appears- and that my daysיָמָyama
time
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yama” appears- should be consumedיִּכְלוּyichlu
be spent
To be used up little by little until nothing is left.
Where else “yichlu” appears- in shameבֹשֶׁתvoshet
shame
The shame one suffers, or what causes it.
Where else “voshet” appears
Translation note
Cf. Job 3:10-11.
The context
17because he did not kill me from the womb, so that my mother would have been to me my grave, and her womb pregnant forever.
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