Jeremiah 8:21
For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.
LXX2012 (British)
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 summer is gone, the harvest is past, 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 said, forasmuch as the city, even the home of the sepulchres of my fathers, has been laid waste, and her gates have been devoured with fire?
Song of Solomon 1:5I am black, but beautiful, you⌃ daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Jeremiah 9:1Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? then would I weep for this my people day and night, even for the slain of the daughter of my people.
Jeremiah 17:16But I have not been weary of following you, nor have I desired the day of man; you know; the words that proceed out of my lips are before your face.
Joel 2:6Before them shall the people be crushed: every face shall be as the blackness of a + 2:6 Or, pot. cauldron.
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 →