Jeremiah 10:19
17 Gather up your belongings from this land, you who live under siege.
18 For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, at this time I will sling out the inhabitants of the land and bring distress upon them so that they may be captured.”
Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”
20 My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.
21 For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”
- KJV
- Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
- WEB
- Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”
- ASV
- Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.
- DARBY
- Woe is me, for my wound! My stroke is hard to heal, and I had said, Yea, this is [my] grief, and I will bear it.
- BLB
- Woe to me because of my brokenness—my wound is grievous! And I said, “Truly this [is] a sickness, and I must bear it.
- ÅB
- Ve meg for et slag jeg har fått! Mitt sår er ulegelig! Men jeg sier: Ja, dette er en plage, og jeg må bære den.
- OTB
- Ve meg på grunn av min skade! Min sår er uhelbredelig. Likevel sa jeg: «Dette er min lidelse, og jeg må bære den.»
- B1930
- Ve mig for et slag jeg har fått! Mitt sår er ulægelig! Men jeg sier: Ja, dette er en plage, og jeg må bære den.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Micah 7:9
Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.
Read in contextLamentations 3:18–21
So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
Read in contextJeremiah 4:31
For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”
Read in contextLamentations 3:39–40
Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
Read in contextJeremiah 14:17
You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.
Read in contextLamentations 1:2
She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
Read in contextJeremiah 9:1
Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
Read in contextLamentations 1:12–22
Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?
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