Jeremiah 10 · Verse 19

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.
Jeremiah 10:19, King James Version

Jeremiah 10:19 in other translations

BSBWoe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”
WEBWoe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”
ASVWoe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.
YLTWoe to me for my breaking, Grievious hath been my smiting, And I said, Only, this is my sickness, and I bear it.
DARBYWoe 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.
BBESorrow 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.
WebsterWoe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

What does Jeremiah 10:19 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
19. Judea bewails its calamity. wound--the stroke I suffer under. I must bear--not humble submission to God's will (Mi 7:9), but sullen impenitence. Or, rather, it is prophetical of their ultimate acknowledgment of their guilt as the cause of their calamity (La 3:39).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 10:17-25

The Jews who continued in their own land, felt secure. But, sooner or later, sinners will find all things as the word of God has declared, and that its threatenings are not empty terrors. Submission will support the believer under every grief allotted to him; but what can render the load of Divine vengeance easy to be borne by those who fall under it in sullen despair? Those cannot expect to prosper, who do not, by…

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Jeremiah 10:19 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

א֥וֹי'owoe!H188
לִי֙lito <the> me
עַל\־'al-onH5921
שִׁבְרִ֔יshiv.Rifracture myH7667
נַחְלָ֖הnach.Lah[is] severeH2470
מַכָּתִ֑יma.ka.Tiwound myH4347
וַאֲנִ֣יva.'a.Niand IH589
אָמַ֔רְתִּי'a.Mar.tiI saidH559
אַ֛ךְ'akhsurelyH389
זֶ֥הzehthisH2088
חֳלִ֖יcho.Li[is] a sicknessH2483
וְאֶשָּׂאֶֽנּוּ\׃ve.'e.sa.'E.nuand I will endure itH5375

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Cross references for Jeremiah 10:19

  • Micah 7:9

    I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

  • Lamentations 3:18-21

    And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

  • Jeremiah 4:31

    For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

  • Lamentations 3:39-40

    Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.

  • Jeremiah 14:17

    Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

  • Lamentations 1:2

    She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

  • Jeremiah 9:1

    Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

  • Lamentations 1:12-22

    Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up. The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress. …

  • Psalms 39:9

    I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

  • Lamentations 3:48

    Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Jeremiah 17:13

    O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

  • Psalms 77:10

    And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Woe.
4:19,31; 8:21; 9:1; 17:13; La 1:2,12-22; 2:11-22; 3:48
Truly.
Ps 39:9; 77:10; Isa 8:17; La 3:18-21,39,40; Mic 7:9

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Context

  • Jeremiah 10:18

    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.

  • 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.

  • Jeremiah 10:20

    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.

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Jeremiah 10:19 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
¡Ay de mí, por mi quebrantamiento! mi llaga es muy dolorosa. Yo empero dije: Ciertamente enfermedad mía es esta, y debo sufrirla.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Malheur à moi, à cause de ma ruine! ma plaie est douloureuse. Et moi j’ai dit: C’est ici mon mal, et je le supporterai.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Wehe mir ob meiner Wunde! Schmerzlich ist mein Schlag. Doch ich spreche: Ja, das ist mein Leiden, und ich will es tragen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Væ mihi super contritione mea: pessima plaga mea. Ego autem dixi: Plane hæc infirmitas mea est, et portabo illam.