Jeremiah 8:21

New Revised Standard

For the hurt of my poor people I am hurt, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold of me.

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 Life Bible
I am hurt because my people are hurt. I am filled with sorrow, and fear 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 When I wanted to gather them, says the Lord , there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree; even the leaves are withered, and what I gave them has passed away from them. ¹⁴ Why do we sit still? Gather together, let us go into the fortified cities and perish there; for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish, and has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord . ¹⁵ We look for peace, but find no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror instead. ¹⁶ The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan; at the sound of the neighing of their stallions the whole land quakes. They come and devour the land and all that fills it, the city and those who live in it. ¹⁷ See, I am letting snakes loose among you, adders that cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the Lord . ¹⁸ My joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick. ¹⁹ Hark, the cry of my poor people from far and wide in the land: "Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?" ("Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their foreign idols?") ²⁰ "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved." ²¹ For the hurt of my poor people I am hurt, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold of me. ²² Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of my poor people not been restored?

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, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

Genesis 4:12
When you till the ground, it will no longer yield to you its strength; you will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth."

Genesis 5:29
he named him Noah, saying, "Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands."

Genesis 6:5
The Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.

Genesis 6:17
For my part, I am going to bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.

Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and all the domestic animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided;

Genesis 8:2
the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,

Genesis 8:3
and the waters gradually receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had abated;

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

Genesis 8:7
and sent out the raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were 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.