Jeremiah 8:18

King James Version (1611 Edition)

When I would comfort my selfe against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
My joy has flown away;grief has settled on me.My heart is sick.

Hebrew Names Version
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

King James Version
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

English Standard Version
My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick within me.

New American Standard Bible
My sorrow is beyond healing, My heart is faint within me!

New Century Version
God, you are my comfort when I am very sad and when I am afraid.

Amplified Bible
Oh, that I (Jeremiah) could find comfort from my sorrow [for my grief is beyond healing], My heart is sick and faint within me!

World English Bible
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I would haue comforted my selfe against sorowe, but mine heart is heauie in me.

Legacy Standard Bible
My sorrow is beyond healing;My heart is faint within me!

Berean Standard Bible
My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

Contemporary English Version
I'm burdened with sorrow and feel like giving up.

Complete Jewish Bible
My grief has no cure, I am sick at heart.

Darby Translation
My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me!

Easy-to-Read Version
God, I am very sad and afraid.

George Lamsa Translation
I am weary with sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

Good News Translation
My sorrow cannot be healed; I am sick at heart.

Lexham English Bible
"My comfort is gone from me, sorrow is on me, my heart is sick.

Literal Translation
My refreshing is beyond grief; my heart is sick within me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Sorowe is come vpon me, and heuynes vexeth my herte:

American Standard Version
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

Bible in Basic English
Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Though I would take comfort against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I woulde haue had comfort against sorowe: but sorowe is come vpon me, and heauinesse vexeth my heart.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
mortally with the pain of your distressed heart.

English Revised Version
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
My sorewe is on sorewe, myn herte is mourenynge in me.

Update Bible Version
I am grimacing because of my sorrow. My heart is faint inside me.

Webster's Bible Translation
[When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.

New English Translation
Then I said, "There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart!

New King James Version
I would comfort myself in sorrow; My heart is faint in me.

New Living Translation
My grief is beyond healing; my heart is broken.

New Life Bible
My sorrow is too much to heal. My heart is weak within me.

New Revised Standard
My joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When I would have cheered myself against sorrow, Against me, mine own heart sickened: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me.

Revised Standard Version
My grief is beyond healing, my heart is sick within me.

Young's Literal Translation
My refreshing for me [is] sorrow, For me my heart [is] sick.

THE MESSAGE
I drown in grief. I'm heartsick. Oh, listen! Please listen! It's the cry of my dear people reverberating through the country. Is God no longer in Zion? Has the King gone away? Can you tell me why they flaunt their plaything-gods, their silly, imported no-gods before me? The crops are in, the summer is over, but for us nothing's changed. We're still waiting to be rescued. For my dear broken people, I'm heartbroken. I weep, seized by grief. Are there no healing ointments in Gilead? Isn't there a doctor in the house? So why can't something be done to heal and save my dear, dear people?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
My sorrow is beyond healing, My heart is faint within me!

Contextual Overview

¹³ I will surely consume them, saith the Lord; there shalbe no grapes on the vine, nor figges on the figtree, and the leafe shall fade, and the things that I haue giuen them, shall passe away from them. ¹⁴ Why doe wee sit still? Assemble your selues, and let vs enter into the defenced cities, and let vs be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put vs to silence, and giuen vs waters of gall to drink, because we haue sinned against the Lord. ¹⁵ We looked for peace, but no good came: and for a time of health, and behold trouble. ¹⁶ The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones, for they are come and haue deuoured the land, and all that is in it, the citie, and those that dwell therein. ¹⁷ For behold, I wil send serpents, cockatrices among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you; saith the Lord. ¹⁸ When I would comfort my selfe against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. ¹⁹ Behold the voice of the crie of the daughter of my people because of them that dwel in a farre countrey: Is not the Lord in Zion? is not her king in her? why haue they prouoked me to anger with their grauen images, and with strange vanities? ²⁰ The haruest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saued. ²¹ For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt, I am blacke: astonishment hath taken hold on me. ²² Is there no balme in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recouered?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my: Jeremiah 6:24, Jeremiah 10:19-22, Job 7:13, Job 7:14, Isaiah 22:4, Lamentations 1:16, Lamentations 1:17, Daniel 10:16, Daniel 10:17, Habakkuk 3:16

in: Heb. upon

Reciprocal: Job 9:27 - General Psalms 13:2 - sorrow Isaiah 15:5 - My heart Jeremiah 8:4 - Moreover Jeremiah 9:10 - the mountains Jeremiah 14:17 - let mine Jeremiah 20:18 - to see Jeremiah 45:3 - I fainted Lamentations 1:22 - my heart Lamentations 5:17 - our heart Ezekiel 21:7 - faint John 14:1 - not 2 Corinthians 7:5 - our Philippians 2:27 - but on

Cross-References

Psalms 121:8
The Lord shall preserue thy going out, and thy comming in: from this time foorth and euen for euermore.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When I would comfort myself against terror,.... Either naturally, by eating and drinking, the necessary and lawful means of refreshment; or spiritually, by reading the word of God, and looking over the promises in it:

my heart is faint in me; at the consideration of the calamities which were coming upon his people, and which were made known to him by a spirit of prophecy, of which he had no room to doubt. So the Targum takes them to be the words of the prophet, paraphrasing them,

"for them, saith the prophet, my heart grieves.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Rather, “O my comfort in sorrow: my heart faints for me.” The word translated “comfort” is by some supposed to be corrupt. With these mournful ejaculations a new strophe begins, ending with Jeremiah 9:1, in which the prophet mourns over the miserable fate of his countrymen, among whom he had been earnestly laboring, but all in vain.