Jeremiah 14:8

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⁶ And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

⁷ O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

⁹ Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.

¹⁰ Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?
KJV: O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
WEB: You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?
ASV: O thou hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
DARBY: Thou hope of Israel, its Saviour in the time of trouble, why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a traveller that turneth aside to stay a night?
BLB: O Hope of Israel, his Savior in time of distress, why should You be like a sojourner in the land, and like a traveler [who] stretches aside to spend the night.

ÅB: Du Israels håp, dets frelser i nødens tid! Hvorfor vil du være som en fremmed i landet, lik en veifarende mann som tar av fra veien bare for å overnatte?
OTB: Israels håp, dets Frelser i nødens tid, hvorfor er du som en fremmed i landet, som en reisende som bare blir en natt?
B1930: Du Israels håp, dets frelser i nødens tid! Hvorfor vil du være som en fremmed i landet, lik en veifarende mann som tar av fra veien bare for å overnatte?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Jeremiah 17:13
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
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Jeremiah 50:7
All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
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Psalms 50:15
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
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Isaiah 43:3
For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
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Psalms 37:39–40
But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
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Isaiah 45:21
Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
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Joel 3:16
The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
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Isaiah 43:11
I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
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