Jeremiah 8:21

New Living Translation

I hurt with the hurt of my people. I mourn and am overcome with grief.

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 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 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 surely consume them. There will be no more harvests of figs and grapes. Their fruit trees will all die. Whatever I gave them will soon be gone. I, the Lord , have spoken!' ¹⁴ "Then the people will say, ‘Why should we wait here to die? Come, let's go to the fortified towns and die there. For the Lord our God has decreed our destruction and has given us a cup of poison to drink because we sinned against the Lord . ¹⁵ We hoped for peace, but no peace came. We hoped for a time of healing, but found only terror.' ¹⁶ "The snorting of the enemies' warhorses can be heard all the way from the land of Dan in the north! The neighing of their stallions makes the whole land tremble. They are coming to devour the land and everything in it— cities and people alike. ¹⁷ I will send these enemy troops among you like poisonous snakes you cannot charm. They will bite you, and you will die. I, the Lord , have spoken!" ¹⁸ My grief is beyond healing; my heart is broken. ¹⁹ Listen to the weeping of my people; it can be heard all across the land. "Has the Lord abandoned Jerusalem?" the people ask. "Is her King no longer there?" "Oh, why have they provoked my anger with their carved idols and their worthless foreign gods?" says the Lord . ²⁰ "The harvest is finished, and the summer is gone," the people cry, "yet we are not saved!" ²¹ I hurt with the hurt of my people. I mourn and am overcome with grief. ²² Is there no medicine in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why is there no healing for the wounds of my people?

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 to the man he said, "Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.

Genesis 4:12
No longer will the ground yield good crops for you, no matter how hard you work! From now on you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."

Genesis 5:29
Lamech named his son Noah, for he said, "May he bring us relief from our work and the painful labor of farming this ground that the Lord has cursed."

Genesis 6:5
The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil.

Genesis 6:17
"Look! I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes. Everything on earth will die.

Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede.

Genesis 8:2
The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped.

Genesis 8:3
So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days,

Genesis 8:6
After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat

Genesis 8:7
and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up.

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.