Jeremiah 8:21
I am sore vexed for the hurt of ye daughter of my people: I am heauie, and astonishment hath taken me.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 haruest is past, the sommer is ended, and we are not holpen.
Cross References
Nehemiah 2:3And I said to the King, God saue the King for euer: why should not my countenance be sad, when the citie and house of the sepulchres of my fathers lieth waste, and the gates thereof are deuoured with fire?
Song of Solomon 1:5Regard ye me not because I am blacke: for the sunne hath looked vpon mee. The sonnes of my mother were angry against mee: they made me the keeper of ye vines: but I kept not mine owne vine.
Jeremiah 9:1Oh, that mine head were full of water and mine eyes a fountaine of teares, that I might weepe day and night for the slayne of the daughter of my people.
Jeremiah 17:16But I haue not thrust in my selfe for a pastour after thee, neither haue I desired the day of miserie, thou knowest: that which came out of my lips, was right before thee.
Joel 2:6Before his face shall the people tremble: all faces shall gather blackenesse.
Luke 19:41And when he was come neere, he behelde the Citie, and wept for 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 →