Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.

New American Standard Bible

Woe is me, because of my injury!
My wound is incurable.
But I said, “Truly this is a sickness,
And I must bear it.”

King James Version

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

Holman Bible

Woe to me because of my brokenness—
I am severely wounded!
I exclaimed, “This is my intense suffering,
but I must bear it.”

International Standard Version

Woe is me because of my injury. My wound is severe. I said, "Truly this is my sickness, and I must bear it.

A Conservative Version

Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous, but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.

American Standard Version

Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.

Amplified


“Woe to me because of my [spiritual] brokenness!” [says Jeremiah, speaking for the nation.]
“My wound is incurable.”
But I said, “Surely this sickness and suffering and grief are mine,
And I must bear it.”

Darby Translation

Woe is me, for my wound! My stroke is hard to heal, and I had said, Yea, this is my grief, and I will bear it.

Julia Smith Translation

Wo to me for my breaking! my blow was sickly; and I said, Surely this a sickness, and I will bear it.

King James 2000

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Woe to me, because of my wound. My wound [is] incurable. But I said, "Surely this [is my] sickness, and I must bear it."

Modern King James verseion

Woe to me for my breaking! My wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a malady, and I must bear it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Alas, how am I hurt? Alas, how painful are my scourges unto me? For I consider this sorrow by myself, and I must suffer it.

NET Bible

And I cried out, "We are doomed! Our wound is severe! We once thought, 'This is only an illness. And we will be able to bear it!'

New Heart English Bible

Woe is me because of my hurt. My wound is grievous: but I said, 'Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.'

The Emphasized Bible

Woe to me! for my grievous injury, Severe, is my wound, - But, I, said, Verily, this, is an affliction and I must bear it:

Webster

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

World English Bible

Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.

Youngs Literal Translation

Woe to me for my breaking, Grievious hath been my smiting, And I said, Only, this is my sickness, and I bear it.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Woe
אוי 
'owy 
Usage: 24

is me for my hurt
שׁבר שׁבר 
Sheber 
Usage: 44

my wound
מכּה מכּה 
Makkah 
Usage: 48

but I said

Usage: 0

this is a grief
חלי 
Choliy 
Usage: 24

and I must bear
נסה נשׂא 
Nasa' 
Usage: 653

References

Fausets

Context Readings

The Nation Accepts Its Judgment

18 For the Lord has said, I will send the people in flight like a stone from the land at this time, troubling them so that they will be conscious of it. 19 Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it. 20 My tent is pulled down and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are not: no longer is there anyone to give help in stretching out my tent and hanging up my curtains.

Cross References

Micah 7:9

I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;

Jeremiah 4:31

A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.

Jeremiah 14:17

And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow.

Psalm 39:9

I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.

Psalm 77:10

And I said, It is a weight on my spirit; but I will keep in mind the years of the right hand of the Most High.

Isaiah 8:17

And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.

Jeremiah 4:19

My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.

Jeremiah 8:21

For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am broken: I am dressed in the clothing of grief; fear has taken me in its grip.

Jeremiah 9:1

If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!

Jeremiah 17:13

O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

Lamentations 1:2

She is sorrowing bitterly in the night, and her face is wet with weeping; among all her lovers she has no comforter: all her friends have been false to her, they have become her haters.

Lamentations 1:12-22

Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.

Lamentations 2:11-22

My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

Lamentations 3:18-21

And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

Lamentations 3:39-40

What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?

Lamentations 3:48

Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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