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Jeremiah 8:21

GriefSufferingDiscouragement and depressionShame

19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?

20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

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Compare

BSB
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
KJV
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
WEB
For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me.
ASV
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.
DARBY
For the breach of the daughter of my people am I crushed; I go mourning; astonishment hath taken hold of me.
BLB
Because of the breaking of the daughter of my people, I am broken; I am mourning; dismay has seized me.
ÅB
Over mitt folks sønderknuselse er jeg sønderknust; jeg går i sørgeklær, forferdelse har grepet meg.
OTB
For mitt folks datters brudd er jeg knust; jeg sørger, og skrekk griper meg.
B1930
Over mitt folks sønderknuselse er jeg sønderknust; jeg går i sørgeklær, forferdelse har grepet mig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Jeremiah 14:17

    Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

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  • Nahum 2:10

    She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

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  • Joel 2:6

    Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

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  • Song of Solomon 1:5–6

    I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

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  • Psalms 137:3–6

    For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

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  • Luke 19:41

    And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

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  • Jeremiah 4:19

    My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

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  • Jeremiah 9:1

    Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

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