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Green's Literal Translation

Jeremiah 8:21

For the breaking of the daughter of my people, I am broken. I mourn; horror has taken hold on me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Church;   Impenitence;   Jeremiah;   Patriotism;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Blackness;   Earnestness-Indifference;   Solicitude;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Nation;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Colour;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lamentations;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Black;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Daughter;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Mourning;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Black;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Color;   Hurt;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Color;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I am broken by the brokennessof my dear people.I mourn; horror has taken hold of me.
Hebrew Names Version
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.
King James Version
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
English Standard Version
For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded; I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.
New American Standard Bible
I am broken over the brokenness of the daughter of my people. I mourn, dismay has taken hold of me.
New Century Version
Because my people are crushed, I am crushed. I cry loudly and am afraid for them.
Amplified Bible
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I (Jeremiah) am broken; I mourn, anxiety has gripped me.
World English Bible
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I am sore vexed for the hurt of ye daughter of my people: I am heauie, & astonishment hath taken me.
Legacy Standard Bible
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken;I mourn, desolation has taken hold of me.
Berean Standard Bible
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
Contemporary English Version
My people are crushed, and so is my heart. I am horrified and mourn.
Complete Jewish Bible
The daughter of my people is broken, and it's tearing me to pieces; everything looks dark to me, horror seizes me.
Darby Translation
—For the breach of the daughter of my people am I crushed; I go mourning; astonishment hath taken hold of me.
Easy-to-Read Version
My people are hurt, so I am hurt. I am too sad to speak.
George Lamsa Translation
For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am sorrowful, and astonishment has seized me.
Good News Translation
My heart has been crushed because my people are crushed; I mourn; I am completely dismayed.
Lexham English Bible
"Because of the wound of the daughter of my people I am broken down, I mourn, horror has seized me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I am sore vexed, because of the hurte of my people: I am heuy and abashed,
American Standard Version
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.
Bible in Basic English
For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am broken: I am dressed in the clothing of grief; fear has taken me in its grip.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I seized with anguish; I am black, appalment hath taken hold on me.
King James Version (1611)
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt, I am blacke: astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I am sore vexed, because of the hurt of my people, I am heauie and abashed:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.
English Revised Version
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y am turmentid, and sori on the sorewe of the douyter of my puple; astonying helde me.
Update Bible Version
For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
New English Translation
My heart is crushed because my dear people are being crushed. I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay.
New King James Version
For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. I am mourning; Astonishment has taken hold of me.
New Living Translation
I hurt with the hurt of my people. I mourn and am overcome with grief.
New Life Bible
I am hurt because my people are hurt. I am filled with sorrow, and fear has taken hold of me.
New Revised Standard
For the hurt of my poor people I am hurt, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold of me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For the grievous injury of the daughter of my people, I am grievously injured, - I am enshrouded in gloom, Horror, hath seized me: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Revised Standard Version
For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.
Young's Literal Translation
For a breach of the daughter of my people have I been broken, I have been black, astonishment hath seized me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken; I mourn, dismay has taken hold of me.

Contextual Overview

13 I will utterly consume them, says Jehovah. No grapes will be on the vine, or figs on the fig tree; even the leaf withers. And I will give to them those who pass over them. 14 Why do we sit still? Gather yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities; and let us be silent there. For Jehovah our God has made us silent there, and He has made us drink poisonous water, because we have sinnedagainst Jehovah. 15 We looked for peace, but no good came ; for a time of healing, but, behold, terror! 16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan; all the land trembles at the sound of the neighing of his stallions. For they come and devour the land and its fullness, the city and those who live in it. 17 For behold, I will send serpents among you, vipers for which there is no charm; and they will bite you, says Jehovah. 18 My refreshing is beyond grief; my heart is sick within me. 19 Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land! Is not Jehovah in Zion? Or is not her king in her? Why have they provoked Me with their carved images, with foreign vanities? 20 Harvest has passed; the summer has ended, and we are not delivered. 21 For the breaking of the daughter of my people, I am broken. I mourn; horror has taken hold on me. 22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no healer there? Why then has the healing of the daughter of my people not come?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the hurt: Jeremiah 4:19, Jeremiah 9:1, Jeremiah 14:17, Jeremiah 17:16, Nehemiah 2:3, Psalms 137:3-6, Luke 19:41, Romans 9:1-3

I am: Song of Solomon 1:5, Song of Solomon 1:6, Joel 2:6, Nahum 2:10

Reciprocal: Isaiah 1:6 - they have Jeremiah 6:26 - daughter Jeremiah 8:4 - Moreover Jeremiah 10:19 - Woe Jeremiah 14:2 - they

Cross-References

Genesis 3:17
And He said to the man, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat from it, the ground shall be cursed because of you; you shall eatof it in sorrow all the days of your life.
Genesis 4:12
When you till the ground, it will not again give its strength to you. You shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth.
Genesis 5:29
And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands because of the ground which the Lord has cursed.
Genesis 6:5
And Jehovah saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the day long.
Genesis 6:17
And behold, I, even I, am bringing a flood of waters on the earth in order to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heavens. Everything which is on the earth shall die.
Genesis 8:1
And God remembered Noah and every living thing, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
Genesis 8:2
And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.
Genesis 8:3
And the waters retreated from the earth, going and retreating. And the waters diminished at the end of a hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 8:6
And it happened, at the end of forty days, even Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
Genesis 8:7
And he sent out a raven, and it went out, going out and returning until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt,.... These are the words, not of God, as Jerom; nor of Jerusalem, as the Targum; but of the prophet, as Kimchi observes, expressing his sympathy with the people in their affliction: and they may be rendered, "for the breach of the daughter of my people" o, which was made when the city was broken up and destroyed, Jeremiah 52:7.

I am broken; in heart and spirit:

I am black; with grief and sorrow. The Targum is,

"my face is covered with blackness, black as a pot.''

Astonishment hath taken hold on me; at the miseries that were come upon his people; and there was no remedy for them, which occasion the following words.

o על שבר "super contritione", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "super confractione", Schmidt; "ob fractionem", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the hurt ... hurt - literally, “Because of the breaking ... broken.” These are the words of the prophet, whose heart is crushed by the cry of his countrymen.

I am black - Or, I go mourning.


 
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