Jeremiah 10:19

Jeremiah 10:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
• New International Version (NIV)Woe to me because of my injury! My wound is incurable! Yet I said to myself, “This is my sickness, and I must endure it.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)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 King James Version (NKJV)Woe is me for my hurt! My wound is severe. But I say, “Truly this is an infirmity, And I must bear it.”

Context of Jeremiah 10:19

17Gather up your belongings from the ground, you who live under siege. 18For this is what the Lord says: Look, I am flinging away the land’s residents at this time and bringing them such distress that they will feel it. Woe to me because of my brokenness — I am severely wounded! I exclaimed, “This is my intense suffering, but I must bear it.” 20My tent is destroyed; all my tent cords are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one to pitch my tent again or to hang up my curtains. 21For the shepherds are stupid: They don’t seek the Lord. Therefore they have not prospered, and their whole flock is scattered.

Jeremiah 10:19 word by word

א֥וֹי לִי֙ עַל־שִׁבְרִ֔י נַחְלָ֖ה מַכָּתִ֑י וַאֲנִ֣י אָמַ֔רְתִּי אַ֛ךְ זֶ֥ה חֳלִ֖י וְאֶשָּׂאֶֽנּוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Woeאוֹי'ôy · woe!H188
• is me for my hurtשֶׁ֫בֶרsheber shêber · breakingH7667
• my woundמַכָּהmakkâh makkeh · woundH4347
• is grievousחָלָהchâlâh · be weak: grievedH2470
• but I saidאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• Trulyאַךְ'ak · surelyH389
• a griefחֳלִיchŏlîy · sicknessH2483
• and I must bearנָשָׂאnâώâ' nâsâh · to lift: bearH5375

Cross-references for Jeremiah 10:19

• Jeremiah 4:19My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in agony! Oh, the pain in my heart! My heart pounds; I cannot be silent. For you, my soul, have heard the sound of the ram’s horn — the shout of battle.
• Jeremiah 8:21I am broken by the brokenness of my dear people. I mourn; horror has taken hold of me.
• Jeremiah 9:1If my head were a flowing spring, my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night over the slain of my dear people.
• Jeremiah 17:13Lord, the hope of Israel, all who abandon you will be put to shame. All who turn away from me will be written in the dirt, for they have abandoned the Lord, the fountain of living water.
• Lamentations 1:2She weeps bitterly during the night, with tears on her cheeks. There is no one to offer her comfort, not one from all her lovers. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
• Lamentations 2:11My eyes are worn out from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief because of the destruction of my dear people, because infants and nursing babies faint in the streets of the city.
• Lamentations 3:48My eyes flow with streams of tears because of the destruction of my dear people.
• Psalms 39:9I am speechless; I do not open my mouth because of what you have done.
• Psalms 77:10So I say, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
• Isaiah 8:17I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob. I will wait for him.
• Lamentations 3:18Then I thought, “My future is lost, as well as my hope from the Lord.”
• Micah 7:9Because I have sinned against him, I must endure the Lord’s fury until he champions my cause and establishes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see his salvation.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 10:19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19This 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.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19-25Verses 19-25 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…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-25Verses 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 faith and prayer, take God…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19Jeremiah experienced personal loss with his people. He spoke for both the nation and himself.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. 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).Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 10:19

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Backsliders
• Church
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Jeremiah
• Resignation

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Commentaries on Jeremiah 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings