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Jeremiah 8:21
For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me.
Jeremiah 8:21 · World English Bible
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Jeremiah 8:21 in other translations
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.
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In context
18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
19 Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: “Isn’t the LORD in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign idols?”
20 “The harvest is past. The summer has ended, and we are not saved.”
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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