Jeremiah 8:21
in Jeremiah 8For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.
KJV
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
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This verse in Jeremiah 8
Commentary
6 notes on this verse(Verse 21.) I am crushed with the contrition of the daughter of my people, and I am sorrowful: astonishment has taken hold of me. God replied that he would be seen afflicted in the affliction of Jerusalem, and would be crushed in human likeness by astonishment.
This site's exposition
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me
on Jeremiah 8:18-22
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me opens the chapter's turn from third-person indictment to the prophet's own grief, Jeremiah heard weeping inside his own oracle rather than merely delivering it. The exiles' own bewildered question, is not the Lord in Zion, is not her king in her, is answered only by the silence of verse 20, the harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved, opportunity named as having simply run out. Is there no balm in Gilead, is there no physician there, closes the unit as the book's most quoted line of grief, Gilead's balm a real regional export named for its medicinal trade, asked here as a question with no answer supplied in the text itself.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt,.... These are the words, not of God, as Jerom; nor of Jerusalem, as the Targum; but of the prophet, as Kimchi observes, expressing his sympathy with the people in their affliction: and they may be rendered, "for the breach of the daughter of my people" (o), which was made when the city was broken up and destroyed, Jer 52:7. I am broken; in heart and spirit: I am black; with grief and sorrow.
Jeremiah had prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem, and, though the truth of his prophecy was questioned, yet he did not rejoice in the proof of the truth of his prophecy was questioned, yet he did not rejoice in the proof of the truth of it by the accomplishment of it, preferring the welfare of his country before his own reputation.
on Jeremiah 8:18-22
Death shall not now be, as it always used to be--the repose of the dead. When Job makes his court to the grave it is in hope of this, that there he shall rest with kings and counsellors of the earth; but now the ashes of the dead, even of kings and princes, shall be disturbed, and their bones scattered at the grave's mouth, Ps. cxli.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
For the hurt ... hurt - literally, “Because of the breaking ... broken.” These are the words of the prophet, whose heart is crushed by the cry of his countrymen. I am black - Or, I go mourning.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| שֶׁ֥בֶר | shever | [the] brokenness of | H7667 → | 45 times |
| בַּת־ | bat- | [the] daughter of | H1323 → | 588 times |
| עַמִּ֖י | ʾami | people my | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| הָשְׁבָּ֑רְתִּי | hashebareti | I have been broken | H7665 → | 147 times |
| קָדַ֕רְתִּי | kadarti | I am in mourning | H6937 → | 17 times |
| שַׁמָּ֖ה | shamah | desolation | H8047 → | 39 times |
| הֶחֱזִקָֽתְנִי׃ | hechezikateni | it has taken hold of me | H2388 → | 291 times |
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
שֶׁ֥בֶר[the] brokenness of
sheverH7667 →45 times
בַּת־[the] daughter of
bat-H1323 →588 times
עַמִּ֖יpeople my
ʾamiH5971 →1873 times
הָשְׁבָּ֑רְתִּיI have been broken
hashebaretiH7665 →147 times
קָדַ֕רְתִּיI am in mourning
kadartiH6937 →17 times
שַׁמָּ֖הdesolation
shamahH8047 →39 times
הֶחֱזִקָֽתְנִי׃it has taken hold of me
hechezikateniH2388 →291 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
Joel 2:6Nations writhe in horror before them; every face turns pale.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 30:6
Ask now, and see: Can a male give birth? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Nahum 2:10
She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!
- Isaiah 13:8
Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.
- Jeremiah 30:6
Through
Nahum 2:10She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!
it leads to
- Joel 2:6
Nations writhe in horror before them; every face turns pale.
- Psalms 22:14
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
- Daniel 5:6
his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.
- Joel 2:6
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 13:17
But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
- 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 13:17
About Jeremiah
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.