Jeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Jeremiah 4:19 in other translations
| 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. |
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| WEB | My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. |
| ASV | My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. |
| YLT | My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul--a shout of battle! |
| DARBY | My bowels! my bowels! I am in travail! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace: for thou hearest, my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the clamour of war. |
| BBE | My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears. |
| Webster | My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. |
What does Jeremiah 4:19 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 4:19-31
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Jeremiah 4:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 4:19
- Habakkuk 3:16
When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
- Isaiah 22:4
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
- Isaiah 16:11
Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir–haresh.
- 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!
- Jeremiah 9:10
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
- Isaiah 21:3
Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
- Daniel 8:27
And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king’s business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.
- Psalms 116:7
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.
- Galatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
- Isaiah 15:5
My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
- Romans 9:2-3
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
- Daniel 7:15
I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
9:1,10; 13:17; 14:17,18; 23:9; 48:31,32; Ps 119:53,136; Isa 15:5
Isa 16:11; 21:3; 22:4; La 1:16; 2:11; 3:48-51; Da 7:15,28; 8:27
Hab 3:16; Lu 19:41,42; Ro 9:2,3; 10:1; Ga 4:19
my very. Heb. the walls of my. O my.
Ge 49:6; Jud 5:21; Ps 16:2; 42:5,6; 103:1; 116:7; 146:1
sound.
5,21; Am 3:6; Zep 1:15,16
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Context
- Jeremiah 4:18
Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
- Jeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
- Jeremiah 4:20
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
Jeremiah 4:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¡Mis entrañas, mis entrañas! Me duelen las telas de mi corazón: mi corazón ruge dentro de mí; no callaré; porque voz de trompeta has oído, oh alma mía, pregón de guerra. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mes entrailles! mes entrailles! je suis dans la douleur! Les parois de mon cœur! Mon cœur bruit au-dedans de moi, je ne puis me taire; car, mon âme, tu entends le son de la trompette, la clameur de la guerre! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Meine Eingeweide, meine Eingeweide! Mir ist angst! Die Wände meines Herzens! Es tobt in mir mein Herz! Ich kann nicht schweigen! Denn du, meine Seele, hörst den Schall der Posaune, Kriegsgeschrei: |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ventrem meum, ventrem meum doleo; sensus cordis mei turbati sunt in me. Non tacebo, quoniam vocem buccinæ audivit anima mea, clamorem prælii. |