Jeremiah 8:21
For the breach of the daughter of my people am I crushed; I go mourning; astonishment hath taken hold of me.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
In Context
20The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
Cross References
Nehemiah 2:3And I said to the king, Let the king live for ever! Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lies waste, and its gates are consumed with fire?
Song of Solomon 1:5I am black, but comely, daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon.
Jeremiah 9:1Oh that my head were waters, and mine eye a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 17:16But as for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd in following thee, neither have I desired the fatal day, thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face.
Joel 2:6Before them the peoples are in anguish: all faces turn pale.
Luke 19:41And as he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it,
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 8:14-22
Destruction Threatened for Sin; Despair of Sinners in Trouble; The Prophet's Lamentation. ( b. c. 606.) 13 I will surely consume them, saith the Lord : there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have… Read the whole commentary →