Jeremiah Grieves for His People

18 My joy is gone; grief is upon me;[a]
    (A)my heart is sick within me.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:18 Compare Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

18 You who are my Comforter[a] in sorrow,
    my heart is faint(A) within me.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:18 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

17 For this (A)our heart has become sick,
    for these things (B)our eyes have grown dim,

Read full chapter

17 Because of this our hearts(A) are faint,(B)
    because of these things our eyes(C) grow dim(D)

Read full chapter

16 “For these things (A)I weep;
    my eyes flow with tears;
for (B)a comforter is far from me,
    one to (C)revive my spirit;
my children are desolate,
    for the enemy has prevailed.”

17 (D)Zion stretches out her hands,
    but (E)there is none to comfort her;
the Lord has commanded against Jacob
    that his neighbors should be his foes;
Jerusalem has become
    a filthy thing among them.

Read full chapter

16 “This is why I weep
    and my eyes overflow with tears.(A)
No one is near to comfort(B) me,
    no one to restore my spirit.
My children are destitute
    because the enemy has prevailed.”(C)

17 Zion stretches out her hands,(D)
    but there is no one to comfort her.
The Lord has decreed for Jacob
    that his neighbors become his foes;(E)
Jerusalem has become
    an unclean(F) thing(G) among them.

Read full chapter

24 We have heard the report of it;
    (A)our hands fall helpless;
anguish has taken hold of us,
    (B)pain as of a woman in labor.

Read full chapter

24 We have heard reports about them,
    and our hands hang limp.(A)
Anguish(B) has gripped us,
    pain like that of a woman in labor.(C)

Read full chapter

Therefore I said:
“Look away from me;
    (A)let me weep bitter tears;
do not labor to comfort me
    concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Read full chapter

Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
    let me weep(A) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
    over the destruction of my people.”(B)

Read full chapter

16 (A)I hear, and (B)my body trembles;
    my lips quiver at the sound;
(C)rottenness enters into my bones;
    my legs tremble beneath me.
Yet (D)I will quietly wait for the day of trouble
    to come upon people who invade us.

Read full chapter

16 I heard and my heart pounded,
    my lips quivered at the sound;
decay crept into my bones,
    and my legs trembled.(A)
Yet I will wait patiently(B) for the day of calamity
    to come on the nation invading us.

Read full chapter

16 And behold, (A)one in the likeness of the children of man (B)touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, “O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and (C)I retain no strength. 17 How can my lord's servant talk with my lord? For now no strength remains in me, and no breath is left in me.”

Read full chapter

16 Then one who looked like a man[a] touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and began to speak.(A) I said to the one standing before me, “I am overcome with anguish(B) because of the vision, my lord, and I feel very weak. 17 How can I, your servant, talk with you, my lord? My strength is gone and I can hardly breathe.”(C)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Daniel 10:16 Most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text; one manuscript of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint Then something that looked like a human hand

19 Woe is me because of my hurt!
    (A)My wound is grievous.
But I said, “Truly this is an affliction,
    and I must bear it.”
20 (B)My tent is destroyed,
    and all my cords are broken;
my children have gone from me,
    (C)and they are not;
there is no one to spread my tent again
    and (D)to set up my curtains.
21 (E)For the shepherds (F)are stupid
    and do not inquire of the Lord;
therefore they have not prospered,
    (G)and all their flock is scattered.

22 A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!—
    (H)a great commotion out of the north country
to make (I)the cities of Judah a desolation,
    (J)a lair of jackals.

Read full chapter

19 Woe to me because of my injury!
    My wound(A) is incurable!
Yet I said to myself,
    “This is my sickness, and I must endure(B) it.”
20 My tent(C) is destroyed;
    all its ropes are snapped.
My children are gone from me and are no more;(D)
    no one is left now to pitch my tent
    or to set up my shelter.
21 The shepherds(E) are senseless(F)
    and do not inquire of the Lord;(G)
so they do not prosper(H)
    and all their flock is scattered.(I)
22 Listen! The report is coming—
    a great commotion from the land of the north!(J)
It will make the towns of Judah desolate,(K)
    a haunt of jackals.(L)

Read full chapter

13 (A)When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
    my couch will ease my complaint,’
14 then you scare me with dreams
    and terrify me with visions,

Read full chapter

13 When I think my bed will comfort me
    and my couch will ease my complaint,(A)
14 even then you frighten me with dreams
    and terrify(B) me with visions,(C)

Read full chapter