Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
For the breaking of the daughter of my people I am broken; I am in gloom; horror has seized me.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Holman Bible
of my dear
I mourn; horror has taken hold of me.
International Standard Version
Because my people are crushed, I'm crushed. I mourn, and dismay overwhelms me.
A Conservative Version
For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold on me.
American Standard Version
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.
Amplified
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I (Jeremiah) am broken;
I mourn, anxiety has gripped me.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
For the breach of the daughter of my people am I crushed; I go mourning; astonishment hath taken hold of me.
Julia Smith Translation
For the breaking of the daughter of my people was I broken; I was darkened; astonishment took hold of me.
King James 2000
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am mourning; dismay has taken hold on me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Because of the wound of the daughter of my people I am broken down, I mourn, horror has seized me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I am sore vexed, because of the hurt of my people: I am heavy and abashed,
NET Bible
My heart is crushed because my dear people are being crushed. I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay.
New Heart English Bible
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.
The Emphasized Bible
For the grievous injury of the daughter of my people, I am grievously injured, - I am enshrouded in gloom, Horror, hath seized me: -
Webster
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
World English Bible
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.
Youngs Literal Translation
For a breach of the daughter of my people have I been broken, I have been black, astonishment hath seized me.
Topics
Interlinear
Sheber
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 8:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lament Over Judah
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. 21 For the breaking of the daughter of my people I am broken; I am in gloom; horror has seized me. 22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the healing of the daughter of My people not come?
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 14:17
And you shall speak this word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and do not let them cease. For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great break, with a very grievous blow.
Joel 2:6
Before their face the people shall be much pained; all faces shall gather blackness.
Nahum 2:10
She is empty and void and waste; and the heart melts, and the knees knock, and trembling is on all the loins; and all their faces collect heat.
Jeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels! I convulse in pain. O walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me; I cannot be silent because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the ram's horn, the alarm of war.
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Nehemiah 2:3
And I said to the king, Let the king live forever. Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire?
Psalm 137:3-6
For there our captors demanded a song from us; and our plunderers demanded gladness, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Song of Songs 1:5-6
I am black, but comely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
Jeremiah 17:16
I have not hurried away from shepherding after You; nor have I desired the woeful day; You surely know the going forth of my lips before Your face.
Luke 19:41
And as He drew near, He beheld the city and wept over it,
Romans 9:1-3
I tell the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,