Jeremiah 45:3 “You have said, ‘Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain…”

Jeremiah 45:3

You have said, ‘Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.’”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

World English Bible

‘You said, “Woe is me now! For the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.”’

American Standard Version

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for Jehovah hath added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou diddest say, Wo is me nowe: for the Lord hath laied sorrow vnto my sorrowe: I fainted in my mourning, and I can finde no rest.

Darby Translation

Thou didst say, Woe unto me! for Jehovah hath added grief to my sorrow; I am weary with my sighing, and I find no rest.

Young's Literal Translation

'Thou hast said, Woe to me, now, for Jehovah hath added sorrow to my pain, I have been wearied with my sighing, and rest I have not found.

Bible in Basic English

You said, Sorrow is mine! for the Lord has given me sorrow in addition to my pain; I am tired with the sound of my sorrow, and I get no rest.

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Cross references

“Woe”

Jeremiah 9:1 Jeremiah 15:10–21 Jeremiah 20:7–18 Psalm 120:5

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 15:10–21 · BSB

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

Jeremiah 20:7–18 · BSB

You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

Psalm 120:5 · BSB

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

“added”

Genesis 42:36–38 Numbers 11:11–15 Joshua 7:7–9 Job 16:11–13 Job 23:2 Psalm 42:7

Genesis 42:36–38 · BSB

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”

Numbers 11:11–15 · BSB

So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people?

Joshua 7:7–9 · BSB

“O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!

Job 16:11–13 · BSB

God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

Job 23:2 · BSB

“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Psalm 42:7 · BSB

Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.

“I fainted”

2 Corinthians 4:1 2 Corinthians 4:16 Galatians 6:9 Jeremiah 8:18 Psalm 27:13 Proverbs 24:10

2 Corinthians 4:1 · BSB

Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.

2 Corinthians 4:16 · BSB

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.

Galatians 6:9 · BSB

Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Jeremiah 8:18 · BSB

My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

Psalm 27:13 · BSB

Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

Proverbs 24:10 · BSB

If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!

Also

Psalm 6:6 Psalm 69:3

Psalm 6:6 · BSB

I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

Psalm 69:3 · BSB

I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

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

In context

2“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:

4Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.

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