Jeremiah 8:18-9:2
New Living Translation
Jeremiah Weeps for Sinful Judah
18 My grief is beyond healing;
my heart is broken.
19 Listen to the weeping of my people;
it can be heard all across the land.
“Has the Lord abandoned Jerusalem?[a]” the people ask.
“Is her King no longer there?”
“Oh, why have they provoked my anger with their carved idols
and their worthless foreign gods?” says the Lord.
20 “The harvest is finished,
and the summer is gone,” the people cry,
“yet we are not saved!”
21 I hurt with the hurt of my people.
I mourn and am overcome with grief.
22 Is there no medicine in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why is there no healing
for the wounds of my people?
Jeremiah 8:18-9:2
English Standard Version
Jeremiah Grieves for His People
18 My joy is gone; grief is upon me;[a]
(A)my heart is sick within me.
19 Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
from (B)the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
(C)Is her King not in her?”
(D)“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images
and with their foreign idols?”
20 “The harvest is past, the summer is ended,
and we are not saved.”
21 For the wound of (E)the daughter of my people is my heart wounded;
(F)I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.
22 Is there no (G)balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has the health of the daughter of my people
not been restored?
9 [b] (H)Oh that my head were waters,
and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
for the slain of (I)the daughter of my people!
2 [c] Oh that I had in the desert
a travelers' lodging place,
that I might leave my people
and go away from them!
For they are all (J)adulterers,
a company of (K)treacherous men.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 8:18 Compare Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
- Jeremiah 9:1 Ch 8:23 in Hebrew
- Jeremiah 9:2 Ch 9:1 in Hebrew
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