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King James Version

Jeremiah 10:19

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Backsliders;   Church;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Jeremiah;   Resignation;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nahum (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Wound;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hurt;   Jeremiah (2);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Captivity;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Woe to me because of my brokenness—I am severely wounded!I exclaimed, “This is my intense suffering,but I must bear it.”
Hebrew Names 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.
English Standard Version
Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous. But I said, "Truly this is an affliction, and I must bear it."
New American Standard Bible
Woe to me, because of my injury! My wound is incurable. But I said, "This certainly is a sickness, And I must endure it."
New Century Version
How terrible it will be for me because of my injury. My wound cannot be healed. Yet I told myself, "This is my sickness; I must suffer through it."
Amplified Bible
"Woe to me because of my [spiritual] brokenness!" [says Jeremiah, speaking for the nation.] "My wound is incurable." But I said, "Surely this sickness and suffering and grief are mine, And I must bear it."
World English Bible
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 (1587)
Wo is me for my destruction, and my grieuous plague: but I thought, Yet it is my sorow, and I will beare it.
Legacy Standard Bible
Woe is me, because of my injury!My wound is desperately sick.But I said, "Truly this is a sickness,And I must bear it."
Berean Standard Bible
Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, "This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it."
Contemporary English Version
The people answered, "We are wounded and doomed to die. Why did we say we could stand the pain?
Complete Jewish Bible
Woe to me because of my wound! My injury is incurable! I used to say, "It's only an illness, and I can bear 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.
Easy-to-Read Version
I am hurt badly. I am injured and I cannot be healed. But I told myself, "This is my sickness; I must suffer through it."
George Lamsa Translation
Woe to me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is my grief and I must bear it.
Good News Translation
The people of Jerusalem cried out, "How badly we are hurt! Our wounds will not heal. And we thought this was something we could endure!
Lexham English Bible
Woe to me, because of my wound. My wound is incurable. But I said, "Surely this is my sickness, and I must bear it."
Literal Translation
Woe to me for my breaking! My wound is grievous. But I said, Truly this is a malady, and I must bear it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Alas, how am I hurte? Alas, how panefull are my scourges vnto me? For I cosidre this sorow by my self, & I must suffre 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.
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Woe is me for my hurt! My wound is grievous; but I said: 'This is but a sickness, and I must bear it.'
King James Version (1611)
Woe is mee for my hurt, my wound is grieuous: but I sayd, Truely this is a griefe, and I must beare it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Alas howe am I hurt? alas howe paynefull are my scourges vnto me? for I consider this sorowe by my selfe, and I must suffer it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Alas for thy ruin! thy plague is grievous: and I said, Surely this is thy wound, and it has overtaken thee.
English Revised Version
Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Wo to me on my sorewe, my wounde is ful yuel; forsothe Y seide, Pleynli this is my sikenesse, and Y schal bere it.
Update Bible 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.
Webster's Bible Translation
Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it.
New English Translation
And I cried out, "We are doomed! Our wound is severe! We once thought, ‘This is only an illness. And we will be able to bear it!'
New King James Version
Woe is me for my hurt! My wound is severe. But I say, "Truly this is an infirmity, And I must bear it."
New Living Translation
My wound is severe, and my grief is great. My sickness is incurable, but I must bear it.
New Life Bible
It is bad for me because I am hurt! My sore cannot be healed. But I said, "For sure this sickness is mine, and I must suffer with it."
New Revised Standard
Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is severe. But I said, "Truly this is my punishment, and I must bear it."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Woe to me! for my grievous injury, Severe, is my wound, - But, I, said, Verily, this, is an affliction and I must bear it:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe is me for my destruction, my wound is very grievous. But I said: Truly this is my own evil, and I will bear it.
Revised Standard Version
Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous. But I said, "Truly this is an affliction, and I must bear it."
Young's Literal Translation
Wo to me for my breaking, Grievious hath been my smiting, And I said, Only, this [is] my sickness, and I bear it.
THE MESSAGE
But it's a black day for me! Hopelessly wounded, I said, "Why, oh why did I think I could bear it?" My house is ruined— the roof caved in. Our children are gone— we'll never see them again. No one left to help in rebuilding, no one to make a new start!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Woe is me, because of my injury! My wound is incurable. But I said, "Truly this is a sickness, And I must bear it."

Contextual Overview

17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. 18 For thus saith the Lord , Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so. 19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it. 20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. 21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the Lord : therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. 22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons. 23 O Lord , I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. 24 O Lord , correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. 25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Woe: Jeremiah 4:19, Jeremiah 4:31, Jeremiah 8:21, Jeremiah 9:1, Jeremiah 17:13, Lamentations 1:2, Lamentations 1:12-22, Lamentations 2:11-22, Lamentations 3:48

Truly: Psalms 39:9, Psalms 77:10, Isaiah 8:17, Lamentations 3:18-21, Lamentations 3:39, Lamentations 3:40, Micah 7:9

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 4:13 - Woe Jeremiah 4:20 - suddenly Jeremiah 8:18 - my

Cross-References

Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
Genesis 10:2
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10:7
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
Genesis 10:8
And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
Genesis 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 10:15
And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
Genesis 10:17
And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Genesis 10:18
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
Genesis 10:21
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
Genesis 10:24
And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Woe is me for my hurt!.... Or "breach" a; which was made upon the people of the Jews, when besieged, taken, and carried captive; with whom the prophet heartily sympathized, and considered their calamities and distresses as his own; for these are the words of the prophet, lamenting the sad estate of his people.

My wound is grievous; causes grief, is very painful, and hard to be endured:

but I said; within himself, after he had thoroughly considered the matter:

this is a grief; an affliction, a trial, and exercise:

and I must bear it; patiently and quietly, since it is of God, and is justly brought upon the people for their sins.

a על שברי "propter confractionem meam", Cocceius Schmidt,

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The lamentation of the daughter of Zion, the Jewish Church, at the devastation of the land, and her humble prayer to God for mercy.

Jeremiah 10:19

Grievous - Rather, “mortal,” i. e., fatal, incurable.

A grief - Or, “my grief.”

Jeremiah 10:20

tabernacle - i. e., “tent.” Jerusalem laments that her tent is plundered and her children carried into exile, and so “are not,” are dead Matthew 2:18, either absolutely, or dead to her in the remote land of their captivity. They can aid the widowed mother no longer in pitching her tent, or in hanging up the curtains round about it.

Jeremiah 10:21

Therefore they shall not prosper - Rather, “therefore they have not governed wisely.” “The pastors,” i. e., the kings and rulers Jeremiah 2:8, having sunk to the condition of barbarous and untutored men, could not govern wisely.

Jeremiah 10:22

The “great commotion” is the confused noise of the army on its march (see Jeremiah 8:16).

Dragons - i. e., jackals; see the marginal reference.

Jeremiah 10:23

At the rumour of the enemy’s approach Jeremiah utters in the name of the nation a supplication appropriate to men overtaken by the divine justice.

Jeremiah 10:24

With judgment - In Jeremiah 30:11; Jeremiah 46:28, the word “judgment” (with a different preposition) is rendered “in measure.” The contrast therefore is between punishment inflicted in anger, and that inflicted as a duty of justice, of which the object is the criminal’s reformation. Jeremiah prays that God would punish Jacob so far only as would bring him to true repentance, but that he would pour forth his anger upon the pagan, as upon that which opposes itself to God Jeremiah 10:25.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 10:19. This is a grief, and I must bear it. — Oppressive as it is, I have deserved it, and worse; but even in this judgment God remembers mercy.


 
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