Jeremiah 8:21

The NET Bible®

My heart is crushed because my dear people are being crushed. I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay.

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.

Literal Translation
For the breaking of the daughter of my people, I am broken. I mourn; horror has taken hold on 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 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 take away their harvests, says the Lord . There will be no grapes on their vines. There will be no figs on their fig trees. Even the leaves on their trees will wither. The crops that I gave them will be taken away.'" ¹⁴ The people say, "Why are we just sitting here? Let us gather together inside the fortified cities. Let us at least die there fighting, since the Lord our God has condemned us to die. He has condemned us to drink the poison waters of judgment because we have sinned against him. ¹⁵ We hoped for good fortune, but nothing good has come of it. We hoped for a time of relief, but instead we experience terror. ¹⁶ The snorting of the enemy's horses is already being heard in the city of Dan. The sound of the neighing of their stallions causes the whole land to tremble with fear. They are coming to destroy the land and everything in it! They are coming to destroy the cities and everyone who lives in them!" ¹⁷ The Lord says, "Yes indeed, I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes which cannot be charmed away. And they will inflict fatal wounds on you." ¹⁸ Then I said, "There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart! ¹⁹ I hear my dear people crying out throughout the length and breadth of the land. They are crying, ‘Is the Lord no longer in Zion? Is her divine King no longer there?'" The Lord answers, "Why then do they provoke me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?" ²⁰ "They cry, ‘Harvest time has come and gone, and the summer is over, and still we have not been delivered.' ²¹ My heart is crushed because my dear people are being crushed. I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay. ²² There is still medicinal ointment available in Gilead! There is still a physician there! Why then have my dear people not been restored to health?

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
But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 4:12
When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."

Genesis 5:29
He named him Noah, saying, "This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed."

Genesis 6:5
But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

Genesis 6:17
I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,

Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.

Genesis 8:2
The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

Genesis 8:3
The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

Genesis 8:6
At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

Genesis 8:7
and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on 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.