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Jer. 15:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Woef is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

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Job 3:1• ¹After this Job opened his mouth{HR}and cursed his day; (Job 3:1)

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Jer. 20:14‑18• ¹⁴Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
¹⁵Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
¹⁶And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and a shouting at noonday,
¹⁷because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!
¹⁸Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame? (Jer. 20:14‑18)

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Job 3:1‑26• ¹After this Job opened his mouth{HR}and cursed his day;
²And Job answered and said,
³Perish the day wherein I was born,{HR}And the night that said, A man is conceived.
⁴That day! be it darkness;{HR}Let not God from above ask after it;{HR}And let not light shine upon it;
⁵Let darkness and death-shade reclaim it;{HR}Let clouds tabernacle on it;{HR}Let darkenings of the day affright it.
⁶That night! thick darkness seize on it;{HR}Let it not be joined to the days of the year;{HR}Let it not come into the number of the months.
⁷Lo, that night! let it be barren;{HR}Let no shout of joy come into it;
⁸Let cursers of days curse it,{HR}Who are prepared to rouse leviathan.
⁹The stars of its twilight be dark;{HR}Let it look for light but [have] none,{HR}And let it not gaze on the eyelids of the dawn;
¹⁰Because it shut not the doors of my [mother’s] belly,{HR}And hid sorrow from mine eyes.
¹¹Why did I not die from the womb—{HR}Come forth from the belly, and expire?
¹²Why did the knees anticipate me,{HR}And why the breasts that I should suck?
¹³For now I had lain, and been quiet,{HR}I had slept, and then had there been rest for me,
¹⁴With kings and counselors of the earth,{HR}Who built ruins for themselves;
¹⁵Or with princes that had gold,{HR}Who filled their houses with silver;
¹⁶Or, as a hidden abortion, I should not be,{HR}As infants [that] never saw light:
¹⁷There the wicked cease from raging,{HR}And there the weary are at rest;
¹⁸Together rest the prisoners;{HR}They hear not the taskmaster’s voice;
¹⁹Small and great are there the same;{HR}And free the slave from his master.
²⁰Wherefore giveth he light to the wretched one,{HR}And life to the bitter [in] soul;
²¹Who long for death, and it [is] not,{HR}And dig for it more than for hid treasure;
²²Who rejoice to dancing,{HR}Exult when they find the grave?
²³To a man whose way is hid,{HR}And whom God hath hedged in?
²⁴For instead of my bread cometh my sighing,{HR}And like waters are my groans poured forth.
²⁵For greatly I feared, and forthwith it overtook me,{HR}And what I dreaded hath come to me.
²⁶I was not at ease, I had no quiet,{HR}And no rest, and trouble came. (Job 3:1‑26)

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Jer. 15:20• ²⁰And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith Jehovah; (Jer. 15:20)

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Jer. 1:18‑19• ¹⁸For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
¹⁹And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to deliver thee. (Jer. 1:18‑19)

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Jer. 20:7‑8• ⁷Jehovah, thou hast enticed me, and I was enticed; thou hast laid hold of me, and hast prevailed; I am become a derision the whole day: every one mocketh me.
⁸For as oft as I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and spoil; for the word of Jehovah is become unto me a reproach and a derision all the day. (Jer. 20:7‑8)

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1 Kings 18:17‑18• ¹⁷And it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Is it thou, the troubler of Israel?
¹⁸And he said, I have not troubled Israel, but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of Jehovah, and thou hast followed Baalim. (1 Kings 18:17‑18)

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1 Kings 21:20• ²⁰And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of Jehovah. (1 Kings 21:20)

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1 Kings 22:8• ⁸And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah; but I hate him, for he prophesies no good concerning me, but evil: it is Micah the son of Imlah. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so. (1 Kings 22:8)

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Psa. 120:5‑6• ⁵Alas for me, that I sojourn [in] Mesech,{HR}That I dwell with the tents of Kedar!
⁶Long (much) for her hath my soul dwelt with a hater of peace. (Psa. 120:5‑6)

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Ezek. 2:6‑7• ⁶And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, and be not afraid of their words; for briars and thorns are with thee, and thou dwellest among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, and be not dismayed at their faces; for they are a rebellious house.
⁷And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear; for they are rebellious. (Ezek. 2:6‑7)

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Ezek. 3:7‑9• ⁷But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee, for none of them will hearken unto me. For all the house of Israel are hard of forehead and stiff of heart.
⁸Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.
⁹As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead. Fear them not, neither be dismayed at them, for they are a rebellious house. (Ezek. 3:7‑9)

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Matt. 10:21‑23• ²¹But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death;
²²and ye shall be hated of all on account of my name. But he that has endured to [the] end, he shall be saved.
²³But when they persecute you in this city, flee to the other; for verily I say to you, Ye shall not have completed the cities of Israel until the Son of man be come. (Matt. 10:21‑23)

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Matt. 24:9• ⁹Then shall they give you up to tribulation and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated by all the nations for my name's sake. (Matt. 24:9)

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Luke 2:34• ³⁴And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Lo, this [child] is set for the fall and rising up of many in Israel; and for a sign spoken against (Luke 2:34)

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Acts 16:20‑22• ²⁰and when they had brought them unto the praetors, they said, These men being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city,
²¹and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to receive, or practice, being Romans.
²²And the crowd rose up together against them; and the praetors rent their garments off them, and commanded to beat them with rods. (Acts 16:20‑22)

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Acts 17:6‑8• ⁶And not having found them they dragged Jason and certain brethren before the city-rulers, crying out, these that have turned the world upside down are come hither also,
⁷whom Jason has received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.
⁸And they troubled the crowd and the city-rulers, when they heard these things. (Acts 17:6‑8)

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Acts 19:8‑9,25‑28• ⁸And entering into the synagogue he spoke boldly for three months, discoursing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.
⁹But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, discoursing daily in the school of Tyrannus.
²⁵whom he gathered together with the workmen of like nature, and said, Men, ye are aware that we have our prosperity from this business.
²⁶And ye behold and hear that this Paul hath persuaded and turned away a considerable crowd, not only of Ephesus, but of almost all Asia, saying that they are no gods that are made by hands.
²⁷Now, not only is there danger for us that this trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis be counted for nothing, and that even she should be deposed from her magnificence, whom all Asia and the world revereth.
²⁸And when they heard they were filled with wrath and kept crying out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians. (Acts 19:8‑9,25‑28)

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Acts 28:22• ²²But we beg of thee to hear what thou thinkest; for concerning this sect it is known to us that it is everywhere spoken against. (Acts 28:22)

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1 Cor. 4:9‑13• ⁹For, I think, b God set us the apostles last as devoted to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, to both angels and men:
¹⁰we, fools for Christ, but ye prudent in Christ; we weak, but ye strong; ye illustrious, but we disgraced.
¹¹Until the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked and are buffeted and are homeless wanderers,
¹²and we toil, working with our own hands; reviled, we bless, persecuted, we suffer;
¹³slandered, we beseech. We became as the world's scum, off-scouring of all, until now. (1 Cor. 4:9‑13)

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Ex. 22:25• ²⁵—If thou lend money to my people, the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer: ye shall charge him no interest. (Ex. 22:25)

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Deut. 23:19‑20• ¹⁹Thou shalt take no interest of thy brother, interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that can be lent upon interest:
²⁰of a foreigner thou mayest take interest, but of thy brother thou shalt not take interest; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the business of thy hand in the land whither thou goest to possess it. (Deut. 23:19‑20)

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Neh. 5:1‑6• ¹And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
²And there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many, and we must procure corn that we may eat and live.
³And there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards and houses that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
⁴There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
⁵Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already; neither is it in the power of our hand to redeem them, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
⁶And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. (Neh. 5:1‑6)

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Psa. 15:5• ⁵His silver he hath not given for usury,{HR}And a bribe against an innocent [person] he hath not taken.{HR}He who doeth these things shall not be moved forever. (Psa. 15:5)

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Psa. 109:28• ²⁸Let them curse, and bless thou:{HR}They have risen up and shall be ashamed,{HR}And thy servant be glad. (Psa. 109:28)

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Prov. 26:2• ²As the sparrow in wandering,{HR}As the swallow in flying,{HR}So a curse causeless cometh not. (Prov. 26:2)

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Matt. 5:44• ⁴⁴But I say to you, Love your enemies, and pray for those that persecute you, (Matt. 5:44)

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Luke 6:22• ²²Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you [from them], and shall reproach [you], and cast out your name as wicked, for the Son of man's sake. (Luke 6:22)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole land! I have not lent on usury, nor have they lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

W. Kelly Translation

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Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole land! I have not lent on usury, nor have they lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)