Jeremiah 8:21
Good News Translation
My heart has been crushed because my people are crushed; I mourn; I am completely dismayed.

New Revised Standard Version
For the hurt of my poor people I am hurt, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold of me.

Contemporary English Version
My people are crushed, and so is my heart. I am horrified and mourn.

New American Bible
I am broken by the injury of the daughter of my people. I am in mourning; horror has seized me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.

the hurt.

Jeremiah 4:19 My bowels, my bowels are in part, the senses of my heart are troubled within me, I will not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard the sound of the trumpet, the cry of battle.

Jeremiah 9:1 Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 14:17 And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the virgin daughter of my people is afflicted with a great affliction, with an exceeding grievous evil.

Jeremiah 17:16 And I am not troubled, following thee for my pastor, and I have not desired the day of man, thou knowest. That which went out of my lips, hath been right in thy sight.

Nehemiah 2:3 And I said to the king: O king, live for ever: why should not my countenance be sorrowful, seeing the city of the place of the sepulchres of my fathers is desolate, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire?

Psalm 137:3-6 For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion. . . .

Luke 19:41 And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying:

Romans 9:1-3 I speak the truth in Christ: I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost: . . .

I am.

Songs 1:5,6 Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept. . . .

Joel 2:6 At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle.

Nahum 2:10 She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the heart melteth, and the knees fail, and all the loins lose their strength: and the faces of them all are as the blackness of a kettle.

Context
Jeremiah Weeps for His People
20The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. 21For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.22Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?…
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels are in part, the senses of my heart are troubled within me, I will not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard the sound of the trumpet, the cry of battle.

Jeremiah 8:20
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

Jeremiah 9:1
Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 14:2
Judea hath mourned, and the gates thereof are fallen, and are become obscure on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

Jeremiah 14:17
And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the virgin daughter of my people is afflicted with a great affliction, with an exceeding grievous evil.

Joel 2:6
At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle.

Nahum 2:10
She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the heart melteth, and the knees fail, and all the loins lose their strength: and the faces of them all are as the blackness of a kettle.

Jeremiah 8:20
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