Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.
New American Standard Bible
My
King James Version
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Holman Bible
grief has settled on me.
My heart is sick.
International Standard Version
Incurable sorrow has overwhelmed me, my heart is sick within me.
A Conservative Version
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
American Standard Version
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
Amplified
Oh, that I (Jeremiah) could find comfort from my sorrow [for my grief is beyond healing],
My heart is sick and faint within me!
Darby Translation
My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me!
Julia Smith Translation
Because I afflicted not sorrow upon myself, my heart was sick upon me.
King James 2000
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"My comfort [is gone] from me, sorrow [is] on me, my heart [is] sick.
Modern King James verseion
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Sorrow is come upon me, and heaviness vexeth my heart:
NET Bible
Then I said, "There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart!
New Heart English Bible
"Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow. My heart is faint within me.
The Emphasized Bible
When I would have cheered myself against sorrow, Against me, mine own heart sickened: -
Webster
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
World English Bible
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
Youngs Literal Translation
My refreshing for me is sorrow, For me my heart is sick.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 8:18
Prayers for Jeremiah 8:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lament Over Judah
17 See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord. 18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble. 19 The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?
Cross References
Isaiah 22:4
For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 1:16-17
For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.
Lamentations 5:17
Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
Job 7:13-14
When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;
Jeremiah 6:24
The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
Jeremiah 10:19-22
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.
Daniel 10:16-17
Then one whose form was like the sons of men put his finger on my lips; and opening my mouth, I said to him who was before me, O my lord, because of the vision my pains have come on me, and I have no more strength.
Habakkuk 3:16
Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands.