Jeremiah 30:12
in Jeremiah 30For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
For thus saith Jehovah, Thy hurt is incurable, and thy wound grievous.
KJV
For thus saith the Lord, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.
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This verse in Jeremiah 30
Commentary
6 notes on this verseThy bruise is incurable - אנוש anush, desperate, not incurable; for the cure is promised in Jer 30:17, I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds.
This site's exposition
For this is what the LORD
on Jeremiah 30:12-17
The diagnosis is stated plainly, “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.” Verse 14 names the cause, “your great iniquity and your numerous sins.” Verse 17 answers the wound with the LORD's promise, “I will restore your health and heal your wounds,” reversing the word spoken against her.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 12 onwards) For thus says the Lord, your fracture is incurable, your wound is grievous. There is no one to judge your judgment for binding, there is no usefulness in your healing. All your lovers have forgotten you, they will not seek you. For the enemy has struck you with a cruel (or strong) punishment because of the multitude of your iniquities, your sins have become severe (or multiplied). Why do you cry out about your contrition?
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
For thus saith the Lord, thy bruise is incurable,....
Though God correct them, and justly, for their sins, their manifold transgressions and mighty sins, yet he will return in mercy to them, and even their sin shall not prevent their deliverance when God's time shall come.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
The desperate circumstances of the Jews are here represented as an incurable wound. Their sin is so grievous that their hope of the punishment (their exile) soon coming to an end is vain (Jer 8:22;
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How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
Your injury is painful, your wound grievous (Enfers in Old French).
2 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
but I will chasten you in measure according to the law of the Torah.
to be healed cure. No one thinks that you will have salvation.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּ֣י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| כֹ֥ה | khoh | thus | H3541 → | 577 times |
| אָמַ֛ר | ʾamar | he says | H559 → | 5305 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אָנ֣וּשׁ | ʾanush | [is] incurable | H605 → | 9 times |
| לְשִׁבְרֵ֑ךְ | leshivrekh | <to> fracture your | H7667 → | 45 times |
| נַחְלָ֖ה | nachlah | [is] severe | H2470 → | 76 times |
| מַכָּתֵֽךְ׃ | makatekh | wound your | H4347 → | 48 times |
כִּ֣יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
כֹ֥הthus
khohH3541 →577 times
אָמַ֛רhe says
ʾamarH559 →5305 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אָנ֣וּשׁ[is] incurable
ʾanushH605 →9 times
לְשִׁבְרֵ֑ךְ<to> fracture your
leshivrekhH7667 →45 times
נַחְלָ֖ה[is] severe
nachlahH2470 →76 times
מַכָּתֵֽךְ׃wound your
makatekhH4347 →48 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jeremiah 15:18Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.
it leads to
- Micah 1:9
For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 30:15
Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.
- Micah 1:9
Through
2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 5:12–13
They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
- Luke 22:63–64
The men who were holding Jesus began to mock Him and beat Him.
- 2 Chronicles 30:10
And the couriers traveled from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun; but the people scorned and mocked them.
- Jeremiah 5:12–13
Through
Jeremiah 14:17You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow,…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 8:21
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
- Jeremiah 9:1
Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
- Lamentations 2:13
What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your…
- Jeremiah 8:21
Where this verse is studied
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About Jeremiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.