Jeremiah 8 · Verse 21

Jeremiah 8:21

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Jeremiah 8:21, King James Version

Jeremiah 8:21 in other translations

BSBFor the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
WEBFor the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me.
ASVFor the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.
YLTFor a breach of the daughter of my people have I been broken, I have been black, astonishment hath seized me.
DARBY— For the breach of the daughter of my people am I crushed; I go mourning; astonishment hath taken hold of me.
BBEFor the destruction of the daughter of my people I am broken: I am dressed in the clothing of grief; fear has taken me in its grip.
WebsterFor the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

What does Jeremiah 8:21 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
21. black--sad in visage with grief (Joe 2:6).

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 8:14-22

At length they begin to see the hand of God lifted up. And when God appears against us, every thing that is against us appears formidable. As salvation only can be found in the Lord, so the present moment should be seized. Is there no medicine proper for a sick and dying kingdom? Is there no skilful, faithful hand to apply the medicine? Yes, God is able to help and to heal them. If sinners die of their wounds, their…

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Jeremiah 8:21 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.

עַל\־'al-onH5921
שֶׁ֥בֶרShe.ver[the] brokenness ofH7667
בַּת\־bat-[the] daughter ofH1323
עַמִּ֖י'a.Mipeople myH5971
הָשְׁבָּ֑רְתִּיha.she.Ba.re.tiI have been brokenH7665
קָדַ֕רְתִּיka.Dar.tiI am in mourningH6937
שַׁמָּ֖הsha.MahdesolationH8047
הֶחֱזִקָֽתְנִי\׃he.che.zi.Ka.te.niit has taken hold of meH2388

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Cross references for Jeremiah 8:21

  • 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.

  • Nahum 2:10

    She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

  • Joel 2:6

    Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

  • Song of Solomon 1:5-6

    I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

  • Psalms 137:3-6

    For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

  • Luke 19:41

    And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

  • 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 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!

  • Romans 9:1-3

    I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 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:

  • Nehemiah 2:3

    And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

  • Jeremiah 17:16

    As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.

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the hurt.
4:19; 9:1; 14:17; 17:16; Ne 2:3; Ps 137:3-6; Lu 19:41; Ro 9:1-3
I am.
So 1:5,6; Joe 2:6; Na 2:10

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Context

  • Jeremiah 8:20

    The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

  • Jeremiah 8:21

    For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

  • Jeremiah 8:22

    Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

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Jeremiah 8:21 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Quebrantado estoy por el quebrantamiento de la hija de mi pueblo; entenebrecido estoy, espanto me ha arrebatado.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Je suis brisé de la ruine de la fille de mon peuple; je mène deuil, l’épouvante m’a saisi.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ich bin zerschlagen wegen der Zerschmetterung der Tochter meines Volkes; ich gehe trauernd einher Entsetzen hat mich ergriffen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Super contritione filiæ populi mei contritus sum, et contristatus: stupor obtinuit me.