Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For a breach of the daughter of my people have I been broken, I have been black, astonishment hath 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 King James verseion
For the breaking of the daughter of my people I am broken; I am in gloom; 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.
Topics
Interlinear
Sheber
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 8:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lament Over Judah
20 Harvest hath passed, summer hath ended, And we -- we have not been saved. 21 For a breach of the daughter of my people have I been broken, I have been black, astonishment hath seized me. 22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? For wherefore hath not the health of the daughter of my people gone up?
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 14:17
And thou hast said unto them this word: Tears come down mine eyes night and day, And they do not cease, For, with a great breach, Broken hath been the virgin daughter of my people, A very grievous stroke.
Joel 2:6
From its face pained are peoples, All faces have gathered paleness.
Nahum 2:10
She is empty, yea, emptiness and waste, And the heart hath melted, And the knees have smitten together, And great pain is in all loins, And the faces of all of them have gathered paleness.
Jeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul -- a shout of battle!
Jeremiah 9:1
Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.
Nehemiah 2:3
and say to the king, 'Let the king to the age live! wherefore should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of the graves of my fathers, is a waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?'
Psalm 137:3-6
For there our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers -- joy: 'Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.'
Song of Songs 1:5-6
Dark am I, and comely, daughters of Jerusalem, As tents of Kedar, as curtains of Solomon.
Jeremiah 17:16
And I hastened not from feeding after Thee, And the desperate day I have not desired, Thou -- Thou hast known, The produce of my lips, before Thy face it hath been,
Luke 19:41
And when he came nigh, having seen the city, he wept over it,
Romans 9:1-3
Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,