Jeremiah 8:21
For a breach of the daughter of my people have I been broken, I have been black, astonishment hath seized me.
Young's Literal Translation
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 hath passed, summer hath ended, And we — we have not been saved.
Cross References
Nehemiah 2:3and say to the king, 'Let the king to the age live! wherefore should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of the graves of my fathers, [is] a waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?'
Song of Solomon 1:5Dark [am] I, and comely, daughters of Jerusalem, As tents of Kedar, as curtains of Solomon.
Jeremiah 9:1Who doth make my head waters, And mine 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 hastened not from feeding after Thee, And the desperate day I have not desired, Thou — Thou hast known, The produce of my lips, before Thy face it hath been,
Joel 2:6From its face pained are peoples, All faces have gathered paleness.
Luke 19:41And when he came nigh, 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 →