◄ Jeremiah 20:15 ►
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Good News Translation
Curse the one who made my father glad by bringing him the news, "It's a boy! You have a son!"

New Revised Standard Version
Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, saying, “A child is born to you, a son,” making him very glad.

Contemporary English Version
Put a curse on the man who told my father, "Good news! You have a son."

New American Bible
Cursed be the one who brought the news to my father, “A child, a son, has been born to you!” filling him with great joy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cursed be the man that brought the tidings to my father, saying: A man child is born to thee: and made him greatly rejoice.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Cursed be the man that brought the tidings to my father, saying: A man child is born to thee: and made him greatly rejoice.

A man.

Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations.

Genesis 21:5,6 When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father, was Isaac born. . . .

Luke 1:14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness: and many shall rejoice in his nativity.

Context
Jeremiah's Complaint
…14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed. 15Cursed be the man that brought the tidings to my father, saying: A man child is born to thee: and made him greatly rejoice.16Let that man be as the cities which the Lord hath overthrown, and hath not repented: let him hear a cry in the morning, and howling at noontide:…
Cross References
Genesis 21:6
And Sara said: God hath made a laughter for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with me.

Genesis 21:7
And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age?

Jeremiah 20:14
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