LXX Concordance for ἐγενόμην

“The paths of their course wind along,

They go up into nothing and perish.

[Your counsel is as helpful to me as a dry streambed in the heat of summer.]

‘I should have been as though I had not existed;

[I should have been] carried from the womb to the grave.'

“If my heart has been enticed and I was made a fool by a woman,

Or if I have [covetously] lurked at my neighbor's door [until his departure],

“Did not He who made me in the womb make my servant,

And did not the same One fashion us both in the womb?

“Have I rejoiced at the destruction of the enemy [who hated me],

Or exulted [in malicious triumph] when evil overtook him?

I have been young and now I am old,

Yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned

Or his descendants pleading for bread.

Yes, I am like a man who does not hear,

In whose mouth are no arguments.

When I made sackcloth my clothing [as one in mourning],

I became a byword [a mere object of scorn] to them.

For all the day long have I been stricken,

And punished every morning.

Then I was senseless and ignorant;

I was like a beast before You.

When I was a son with my father (David),

Tender and the only son in the sight of my mother (Bathsheba),

“I was almost in total ruin

In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

I, the Preacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.

“I let Myself be sought by those who did not ask for Me;

I let Myself be found by those who did not seek Me.

I said, ‘Here am I, here am I,'

To the nation [Israel] which did not call on My Name.

“O generation [that you are], consider and regard carefully the word of the LORD.

Have I been a wilderness to Israel [like a land without food],

A land of thick and deep darkness [like a path without light]?

Why do My people say, ‘We [have broken loose and we] are free to roam [at will];

We will no longer come to You'?

[Jeremiah said,] O LORD, You have persuaded me and I was deceived;

You are stronger than I and You have prevailed.

I am a laughingstock all day long;

Everyone mocks me.

“They will come with weeping [in repentance and for joy],

And by [their] prayer [for the future] I will lead them;

I will make them walk by streams of waters,

On a straight path in which they will not stumble,

For I am a Father to Israel,

And Ephraim (Israel) is My firstborn.”

Woe is me (judgment is coming)! For I am

Like one who gathers the summer fruits, like one who gleans the vintage grapes.

There is not a cluster of grapes to eat,

No first-ripe fig which my appetite craves.