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OET-LV That not kill_me in_womb and_it_became to_me mother_my grave_my and_womb_her [was]_pregnant of_perpetuity.
UHB אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־מוֹתְתַ֖נִי מֵרָ֑חֶם וַתְּהִי־לִ֤י אִמִּי֙ קִבְרִ֔י וְרַחְמָ֖הֿ הֲרַ֥ת עוֹלָֽם׃ ‡
(ʼₐsher loʼ-mōtətanī mērāḩem vattəhī-liy ʼimmiy qiⱱriy vəraḩmāh hₐrat ˊōlām.)
Key: yellow:verbs, red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
ULT because he did not kill me in the womb, making my mother to be my tomb,
⇔ a womb that was pregnant forever.
UST I want that to happen to him because he did not kill me when I was born.
⇔ I wish that I had died in my mother’s womb,
⇔ and that my mother’s body would have been like my grave.
BSB because he did not kill me in the womb
⇔ so that my mother might have been my grave,
⇔ and her womb forever enlarged.
OEB That he slew me not in the womb,
⇔ So my mother had been my grave,
⇔ And her womb had been great for ever.
WEB because he didn’t kill me from the womb.
⇔ So my mother would have been my grave,
⇔ and her womb always great.
NET For he did not kill me before I came from the womb,
⇔ making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.
LSV Because he has not put me to death from the womb,
And my mother is to me—my grave,
And her womb [is] a perpetual pregnancy.
FBV because he should have killed me in the womb so that my mother would have been my grave, remaining pregnant forever.
T4T I want that to happen to him because he did not kill me before I was born.
⇔ I wish that I had died in my mother’s womb,
⇔ and that my mother’s body would have been like [MET] my grave.
LEB • the womb, so that my mother would have been for me my grave, • and her womb would be pregnant forever.
BBE Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.
MOF No MOF JER book available
JPS Because He slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
ASV because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
DRA Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.
YLT Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me — my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.
DBY because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great [with me]!
RV because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother should have been my grave, and her womb always great.
WBS Because he slew me not at my birth; or that my mother might have been my grave, and she had not been delivered.
KJB 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.
(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. )
BB Why sluest thou not me assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe? or that my mother had ben my graue her selfe, that the byrth might not haue come out, but remayned still in her?
(Why sluest thou/you not me as soon as I came out of my mothers womb? or that my mother had been my graue herself, that the byrth might not have come out, but remaind still in her?)
GNV Because he hath not slaine me, euen from the wombe, or that my mother might haue bene my graue, or her wobe a perpetual conception.
(Because he hath/has not slain/killed me, even from the womb, or that my mother might have been my graue, or her wobe a perpetual conception. )
CB because he slewe me not, as soone as I came out off my mothers wombe, and because my mother was not my graue hirselff, that the byrth might not haue come out, but remayned still in her.
(because he slewe me not, as soone as I came out off my mothers womb, and because my mother was not my graue hirselff, that the byrth might not have come out, but remaind still in her.)
WYC he that killide not me fro the wombe, here cry eerli, and yellynge in the tyme of myddai; that my modir were a sepulcre to me, and hir wombe were euerlastinge conseyuyng.
(he that killide not me from the womb, here cry early, and yellynge in the time of myddai; that my mother were a sepulcre to me, and her womb were everlasting conseyuyng.)
LUT Daß du mich doch nicht getötet hast in Mutterleibe! Daß meine Mutter mein Grab gewesen, und ihr Leib ewig schwanger geblieben wäre!
(That you me though/but not getötet hast in Mutterleibe! That my Mutter my Grab gewesen, and her body ewig schwanger geblieben wäre!)
CLV qui non me interfecit a vulva, ut fieret mihi mater mea sepulchrum, et vulva ejus conceptus æternus !
(who not/no me interfecit a vulva, as fieret mihi mater mea sepulchrum, and womb his conceptus æternus ! )
BRN because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me.
BrLXX ὅτι οὐκ ἀπέκτεινέ με ἐν μήτρᾳ, καὶ ἐγένετό μοι ἡ μήτηρ μου τάφος μου, καὶ ἡ μήτρα συλλήψεως αἰωνίας.
(hoti ouk apekteine me en maʸtra, kai egeneto moi haʸ maʸtaʸr mou tafos mou, kai haʸ maʸtra sullaʸpseōs aiōnias. )
20:14-18 Jeremiah’s hope of deliverance did not negate the reality of his circumstances. Shocked by his persecution, Jeremiah wished that he were already dead or that he had never been born (cp. 16:3-4; Job 3).
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
(Occurrence 0) making my mother to be my tomb
(Some words not found in UHB: which/who not kill,me in,womb and=it_became to=me mother,my grave,my and,womb,her pregnant forever )
Jeremiah speaks of his dying while his mother was still pregnant with him as if his mother’s womb were his tomb.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
(Occurrence 0) a womb that was pregnant forever
(Some words not found in UHB: which/who not kill,me in,womb and=it_became to=me mother,my grave,my and,womb,her pregnant forever )
Jeremiah speaks of his pregnant mother never giving birth to the baby in her womb as if she had been pregnant forever.