Jeremiah · יִרְמְיָהוּ

Jeremiah 20:17

אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־מוֹתְתַ֖נִי מֵרָ֑חֶם וַתְּהִי־לִ֤י אִמִּי֙ קִבְרִ֔י וְרַחְמָ֖הֿ הֲרַ֥ת עוֹלָֽם׃
ʾasher loʾ-mvottaniy meraḥem vathiy-liy ʾimiy qibriy vraḥmah harat ʿvolam
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.

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