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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025
the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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Jeremiah 8:21

I am hurt because my people are hurt. I am filled with sorrow, and fear has taken hold of 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.
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 Living Translation
I hurt with the hurt of my people. I mourn and am overcome with grief.
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 "For sure I will take them away," says the Lord. "There will be no grapes on the vine, and no figs on the fig tree, and the leaves will dry up. What I have given them will pass away." 14 Why are we sitting here? Gather together, and let us go into the strong cities and die there. For the Lord our God has given us up to die. He has given us poison in our water to drink, for we have sinned against Him. 15 We waited for peace, but no good came. We waited for a time of healing, but see, there is much trouble. 16 The noise of his horses is heard from Dan. The whole land shakes at the sound of his war horses. For they come and destroy the land and everything that is in it, the city and those who live in it. 17 "For see, I am sending the worst of snakes against you, poison snakes which cannot be stopped. And they will bite you," says the Lord. 18 My sorrow is too much to heal. My heart is weak within me. 19 Listen! It is the cry of my people from a far away land: "Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?" "Why have they made Me angry with their objects of worship, and with strange gods?" 20 "Gathering time is past, summer is ended, and we are not saved." 21 I am hurt because my people are hurt. I am filled with sorrow, and fear has taken hold of me. 22 Is there no healing oil in Gilead? Is there no doctor there? Why then have my people not been healed?

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
Then He said to Adam, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I told you, "Do not eat from it," the ground is cursed because of you. By hard work you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
Genesis 4:12
When you work the ground, it will no longer give its strength to you. You will always travel from place to place on the earth."
Genesis 5:29
He gave him the name Noah. He said, "This one will give us rest from our work, from the hard work of our hands because the ground was cursed by the Lord."
Genesis 6:5
Then the Lord saw that man was very sinful on the earth. Every plan and thought of the heart of man was sinful always.
Genesis 6:17
See, I will bring a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh under heaven that has the breath of life. Everything on earth will be destroyed.
Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and all the cattle that were with him in the large boat. Then God made a wind blow over the earth until the water went down.
Genesis 8:2
Also the wells of water under the earth and the windows of the heavens were shut. And it stopped raining.
Genesis 8:3
The water kept moving away from the earth. At the end of 150 days the water was less.
Genesis 8:6
At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the large boat which he had made.
Genesis 8:7
Then he sent out a raven, and it flew here and there until the water was dried up from 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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