Jeremiah 8:21
For the hurt of the Bat Ami am I hurt; 1 I mourn; desolation hath taken hold on me. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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
Cross References
Nehemiah 2:3And said unto HaMelech, HaMelech l'olam yicheyeh. Why should not my countenance look sad, when HaIr, the Bais Kivrot Avotai, lieth in ruins, and the gates thereof are consumed with eish?
Song of Solomon 1:5Shechorah (black, dark, sun-blackened) am I, yet lovely, 1 O ye banot Yerushalayim, 1 like the oholim (tents) of Kedar, 1 like the curtains of Sh'lomo. 1
Jeremiah 9:1Oh that I had in the midbar 1 a malon orkhim (travelersʼ lodge); 1 that I might leave my people, 1 and go from them! 1 For they are all no'afim (adulterers), 1 an atzeret bogedim (band of treacherous traitors). 1
Jeremiah 17:16As for me, I have not hastened away 1 from being a ro'eh (shepherd) to follow Thee; 1 neither did I lust for the woeful day; 1 Thou knowest; 1 that which came out of my lips was before Thee. 1
Joel 2:6Before their face, the amim (nations) shall be in anguish; 1 every face turns pale. 1
Luke 19:41And as he came near, having seen the Ir (City) [of Yerushalayim], Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach wept over it, + 19:41 Isa 22:4
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 →