Jeremiah 10:19 “Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said,…”

Jeremiah 10:19

Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

World English Bible

Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”

American Standard Version

Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.

Geneva Bible 1599

Wo is me for my destruction, and my grieuous plague: but I thought, Yet it is my sorow, and I will beare it.

Darby Translation

Woe is me, for my wound! My stroke is hard to heal, and I had said, Yea, this is [my] grief, and I will bear it.

Young's Literal Translation

Woe to me for my breaking, Grievious hath been my smiting, And I said, Only, this [is] my sickness, and I bear it.

Bible in Basic English

Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.

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Cross references

“Woe”

Jeremiah 4:31 Jeremiah 4:19 Jeremiah 8:21 Jeremiah 9:1 Jeremiah 17:13 Lamentations 1:2

Jeremiah 4:31 · BSB

For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the mu…

Jeremiah 4:19 · BSB

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.

Jeremiah 8:21 · BSB

For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.

Jeremiah 9:1 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 17:13 · BSB

O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.

Lamentations 1:2 · BSB

She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

“Truly”

Micah 7:9 Lamentations 3:18–21 Psalm 39:9 Psalm 77:10 Isaiah 8:17 Lamentations 3:39

Micah 7:9 · BSB

Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.

Lamentations 3:18–21 · BSB

So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”

Psalm 39:9 · BSB

I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.

Psalm 77:10 · BSB

So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

Isaiah 8:17 · BSB

I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.

Lamentations 3:39 · BSB

Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?

Also

Jeremiah 14:17

Jeremiah 14:17 · BSB

You 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, a severely grievous wound.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, at this time I will sling out the inhabitants of the land and bring distress upon them so that they may be captured.”

20My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.

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