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Wycliffe Bible

Jeremiah 8:21

Y am turmentid, and sori on the sorewe of the douyter of my puple; astonying helde 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.
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 gaderynge schal gadere hem, seith the Lord; no grape is in the vynes, and figis ben not in the fige tre; a leef felle doun, and Y yaf to hem tho thingis that ben go out ouer. 14 Whi sitten we? come ye togidere, entre we in to a strong citee, and be we stille there; for oure Lord hath maad vs to be stille, and yaf to vs drynk the watir of galle; for we han synned to the Lord. 15 We abididen pees, and no good was; we abididen tyme of medicyn, and lo! drede is. 16 Gnastyng of horsis therof is herd fro Dan; al the lond is moued of the vois of neiyngis of hise werriours; and thei camen, and deuouriden the lond, and the plente therof, the citee, and the dwelleris therof. 17 For lo! Y schal sende to you the werste serpentis, to whiche is no charmyng; and thei schulen bite you, seith the Lord. 18 My sorewe is on sorewe, myn herte is mourenynge in me. 19 And lo! the vois of cry of the douyter of my puple cometh fro a fer lond. Whether the Lord is not in Sion, ethir the kyng therof is not therynne? Whi therfor stiriden thei me to wrathfulnesse bi her grauun ymagis, and bi alien vanytees? 20 Heruest is passid, somer is endid; and we ben not sauyd. 21 Y am turmentid, and sori on the sorewe of the douyter of my puple; astonying helde me. 22 Whether resyn is not in Galaad, ether a leche is not there? Whi therfor the wounde of the douytir of my puple is not heelid perfitli?

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
Sothely God seyde to Adam, For thou herdist the voys of thi wijf, and hast ete of the tree, of which Y comaundide to thee that thou schuldist not ete, the erthe schal be cursid in thi werk; in traueylis thou schalt ete therof in alle daies of thi lijf;
Genesis 4:12
Whanne thou schalt worche the erthe, it schal not yyue his fruytis to thee; thou schalt be vnstable of dwellyng and fleynge aboute on erthe in alle the daies of thi lijf.
Genesis 5:29
and clepide his name Noe, and seide, This man schal comforte vs of the werkis and traueilis of oure hondis, in the loond which the Lord curside.
Genesis 6:5
Sotheli God seiy that myche malice of men was in erthe, and that al the thouyt of herte was ententif to yuel in al tyme,
Genesis 6:17
Lo! Y schal brynge `watris of diluuye ether greet flood on erthe, and Y schal sle ech fleisch in which is the spirit of lijf vndir heuene, and alle thingis that ben in erthe, schulen be wastid.
Genesis 8:1
Forsothe the Lord hadde mynde of Noe, and of alle lyuynge beestis, and of alle werk beestis, that weren with hym in the schip; and brouyte a wynd on the erthe.
Genesis 8:2
And watris weren decreessid, and the wellis of the see weren closid, and the wyndowis of heuene weren closid, and reynes of heuene weren ceessid.
Genesis 8:3
And watrys turneden ayen fro erthe, and yeden ayen, and bigunnen to be decreessid aftir an hundrid and fifti daies.
Genesis 8:6
And whanne fourti daies weren passid, Noe openyde the wyndow of the schip which he hadde maad, and sente out a crowe,
Genesis 8:7
which yede out, and turnede not ayen til the watris weren dried on erthe.

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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