Jeremiah 8:21

I cry because my people have been crushed. I mourn, and I am completely dismayed.

Translation for Translators

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 people say, “The harvest season is finished, the ◄summer/hot season► has ended, and we hoped that we would receive blessings from Yahweh, but he has not rescued us from our enemies.”

22I ask, “Surely there is [RHQ] medicinal balm in the Gilead region! Surely there are [RHQ] doctors there!” But my people have been badly wounded in their spirits, and nothing can heal them.

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Cross References

Nehemiah 2:3I replied, “Your majesty, I hope you will live a very long time! But ◄how can I prevent myself from being sad, because the city where my ancestors are buried has been destroyed and is in ruins?/I cannot keep myself from looking sad, because the city where my ancestors are buried has been destroyed and is in ruins.► [RHQ] Even the city gates have been completely burned.”

Song of Solomon 1:5You women of Jerusalem, I am dark but beautiful; my dark skin is like [SIM] the tents in Kedar, or like the beautiful curtains in Solomon’s palace.

Jeremiah 9:1I wish that my head was like [MET] a spring of water, and that my eyes were like a fountain of tears. Then I would cry night and day for all of my people who have been killed by our enemies.

Jeremiah 17:16Yahweh, you appointed me to take care of your people like a shepherd takes care of his sheep [MET]; I have not abandoned that work, and you know that I have not previously wanted this time of disaster to come to people who ridicule me. And you know everything that I have said [MTY] to your people.

Joel 2:6When people see them coming, they become very pale and frightened.

Luke 19:41When Jesus came near to Jerusalem and saw the city, he cried about its people.

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 →

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