Jeremiah 8:21
For a breach of the daughter of my people I have been broken, || I have been dark, || Astonishment has seized me.
Literal Standard Version
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
20Harvest has passed, summer has ended, || And we have not been saved.
Cross References
Nehemiah 2:3and say to the king, “Let the king live for all time! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of the graves of my fathers, [is] a desolation, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”
Song of Solomon 1:5I [am] dark and lovely, daughters of Jerusalem, as tents of Kedar, as curtains of Solomon.
Jeremiah 9:1Who makes my head waters, || And my eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, || For the wounded of the daughter of my people.
Jeremiah 17:16And I did not hurry from feeding after You, || And I have not desired the desperate day, || You have known the produce of my lips, || It has been before Your face,
Joel 2:6Pained are peoples from its face, || All faces have gathered paleness.
Luke 19:41And when He came near, having seen 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 →