Jeremiah 20:17 meaning and explanation

because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.

Jeremiah 20:17, Berean Standard Bible

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Jeremiah is speaking, deep in the lament that follows his beating and imprisonment by Pashhur the priest. In verses 14 to 18 he curses the day of his birth and the man who announced it, and here he pushes the curse back to the womb itself.

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