Jeremiah · יִרְמְיָהוּ

Jeremiah 20:17

אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־מוֹתְתַ֖נִי מֵרָ֑חֶם וַתְּהִי־לִ֤י אִמִּי֙ קִבְרִ֔י וְרַחְמָ֖הֿ הֲרַ֥ת עוֹלָֽם׃
King James Version (KJV)

Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb {to be} always great {with me}.

Modern English

because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

Hebrew

אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־מוֹתְתַ֖נִי מֵרָ֑חֶם וַתְּהִי־לִ֤י אִמִּי֙ קִבְרִ֔י וְרַחְמָ֖הֿ הֲרַ֥ת עוֹלָֽם׃

ʾasher loʾ-mvottaniy meraḥem vathiy-liy ʾimiy qibriy vraḥmah harat ʿvolam

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