Jeremiah 8:18 “My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.”

Jeremiah 8:18

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

World English Bible

Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

American Standard Version

Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

Geneva Bible 1599

I would haue comforted my selfe against sorowe, but mine heart is heauie in me.

Darby Translation

My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me!

Young's Literal Translation

My refreshing for me [is] sorrow, For me my heart [is] sick.

Bible in Basic English

Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

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Cross references

“my”

Jeremiah 6:24 Isaiah 22:4 Jeremiah 10:19–22 Habakkuk 3:16 Job 7:13 Job 7:14

Jeremiah 6:24 · BSB

We have heard the report; our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.

Isaiah 22:4 · BSB

Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Jeremiah 10:19–22 · BSB

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

Habakkuk 3:16 · BSB

I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.

Job 7:13 · BSB

When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

Job 7:14 · BSB

then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

Also

Lamentations 5:17

Lamentations 5:17 · BSB

Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

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

In context

17“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.

19Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”

Read Jeremiah 8