Jeremiah 20:14-18
20:14 Cursed be the day I was born!
May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.
20:15 Cursed be the man
who made my father very glad
when he brought him the news
that a baby boy had been born to him!
20:16 May that man be like the cities
that the Lord destroyed without showing any mercy.
May he hear a cry of distress in the morning
and a battle cry at noon.
20:17 For he did not kill me before I came from the womb,
making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.
20:18 Why did I ever come forth from my mother’s womb?
All I experience is trouble and grief,
and I spend my days in shame.
Jeremiah 20:1
Jeremiah is Flogged and Put in A Cell
20:1 Now Pashhur son of Immer heard Jeremiah prophesy these things. He was the priest who was chief of security in the Lord’s temple.
Jeremiah 19:4
19:4 I will do so because these people
have rejected me and have defiled
this place. They have offered sacrifices in it to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors
nor the kings of Judah knew anything about. They have filled it with the blood of innocent children.
Job 3:20-22
Longing for Death
3:20 “Why does God give light to one who is in misery,
and life to those whose soul is bitter,
3:21 to those who wait for death that does not come,
and search for it
more than for hidden treasures,
3:22 who rejoice even to jubilation,
and are exultant when they find the grave?
Job 7:15-16
7:15 so that I would prefer strangling,
and death more than life.
7:16 I loathe it; I do not want to live forever;
leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!
Jonah 4:3
4:3 So now,
Lord, kill me instead,
because I would rather die than live!”
Revelation 6:16
6:16 They
said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,
Revelation 9:6
9:6 In
those days people
will seek death, but
will not be able to
find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.