Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version You who are my Comforter in sorrow, my heart is faint within me. New Living Translation My grief is beyond healing; my heart is broken. English Standard Version My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick within me. Berean Standard Bible My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me. King James Bible When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. New King James Version I would comfort myself in sorrow; My heart is faint in me. New American Standard Bible My sorrow is beyond healing, My heart is faint within me! NASB 1995 My sorrow is beyond healing, My heart is faint within me! NASB 1977 My sorrow is beyond healing, My heart is faint within me! Legacy Standard Bible My sorrow is beyond healing; My heart is faint within me! Amplified Bible Oh, that I (Jeremiah) could find comfort from my sorrow [for my grief is beyond healing], My heart is sick and faint within me! Christian Standard Bible My joy has flown away; grief has settled on me. My heart is sick. Holman Christian Standard Bible My joy has flown away; grief has settled on me. My heart is sick. American Standard Version Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me. Aramaic Bible in Plain English I am worn out in my grief, and my heart grieves against me Brenton Septuagint Translation mortally with the pain of your distressed heart. Contemporary English Version I'm burdened with sorrow and feel like giving up. Douay-Rheims Bible My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me. English Revised Version Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me. GOD'S WORD® Translation Sorrow has overwhelmed me. I am sick at heart! Good News Translation My sorrow cannot be healed; I am sick at heart. International Standard Version Incurable sorrow has overwhelmed me, my heart is sick within me. JPS Tanakh 1917 Though I would take comfort against sorrow, My heart is faint within me. Literal Standard Version My sorrow [is] beyond comfort, | My heart [is] sick in me. Majority Standard Bible My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me. New American Bible My joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick. NET Bible Then I said, "There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart! New Revised Standard Version My joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick. New Heart English Bible "My joy for me is sorrow. My heart is faint within me. Webster's Bible Translation When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. World English Bible Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me. Young's Literal Translation My refreshing for me is sorrow, For me my heart is sick. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Jeremiah Weeps for His People18My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me. 19Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”… Cross References Psalm 143:7 Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit. Isaiah 22:4 Therefore I said, "Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people." Jeremiah 9:1 Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people. Jeremiah 23:9 As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, because of His holy words. Lamentations 1:16 For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed. Lamentations 1:17 Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them. Lamentations 5:17 Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim-- Treasury of Scripture When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. my. Jeremiah 6:24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail. Jeremiah 10:19-22 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it… Job 7:13,14 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; … in Heb. Jump to Previous Comfort Comforter Faint Feeble Grief Healing Heart Refreshing Sadness Sick Sorrow WithinJump to Next Comfort Comforter Faint Feeble Grief Healing Heart Refreshing Sadness Sick Sorrow WithinJeremiah 8 1. The calamity of the Jews, both dead and alive.4. He upbraids their foolish and shameless impenitency. 13. He shows their grievous judgment; 18. and bewails their desperate estate. (18) When I would comfort myself . . .--The word translated comfort is not found elsewhere, and has been very differently understood. Taking the words as spoken after a pause, they come as a cry of sorrow following the proclamation of the judgment of Jehovah, Ah, my comfort against sorrow! (mourning for it as dead and gone); my heart is sick within me. The latter phrase is the same as in Isaiah 1:5.Verse 18 - Jeremiah 9. 50. - The captivity of Judah and the deep sorrow of Jeremiah. Verse 18. - When I would comfort myself, etc. The text is here extremely difficult, and if there is corruption anywhere it is in the opening of this verse. Ewald and Graf suppose an ellipsis, and render, "(Oh for) my enlivening [i.e. an enlivening for me] in trouble!" Hitzig more naturally renders in the vocative, "My enlivener in trouble" which he supposes to be in apposition to my heart. Do Dieu (1648) wavers between this and the view that it is an address to his wife, "Quae marito solatio est." (See, however, Jeremiah 16:2.) Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew My sorrowיָג֑וֹן (yā·ḡō·wn) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3015: Grief, sorrow is beyond עֲלֵ֣י (‘ă·lê) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against healing; מַבְלִ֥יגִיתִ֖י (maḇ·lî·ḡî·ṯî) Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 4010: Smiling, cheerfulness, source of brightening my heart לִבִּ֥י (lib·bî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre [is] faint דַוָּֽי׃ (ḏaw·wāy) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 1742: Sick, troubled within me. עָלַ֖י (‘ā·lay) Preposition | first person common singular Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against Links Jeremiah 8:18 NIVJeremiah 8:18 NLT Jeremiah 8:18 ESV Jeremiah 8:18 NASB Jeremiah 8:18 KJV Jeremiah 8:18 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 8:18 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 8:18 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 8:18 French Bible Jeremiah 8:18 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 8:18 Oh that I could comfort myself against (Jer.) |
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