KJV King James Version
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
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Jeremiah 8:21
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
WEB World English Bible
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.
ASV American Standard Version
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 8
18 [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: [Is] not the LORD in Zion? [is] not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, [and] with strange vanities?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
22 [Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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Jeremiah 14:17Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.Joel 2:6Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.Nahum 2:10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.Psalm 137:3-6For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.Song of Solomon 1:5-6I [am] black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.Romans 9:1-3I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,Luke 19:41And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,Jeremiah 9:1Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!Jeremiah 4:19My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.Nehemiah 2:3And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, [lieth] waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?Jeremiah 17:16As for me, I have not hastened from [being] a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was [right] before thee.
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