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.”
• 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.”
• New Living Translation (NLT)My wound is severe, and my grief is great. My sickness is incurable, but I must bear it.

Context of Jeremiah 10:19

17Gather up your bundle from the ground, O you who dwell under siege! 18For thus says the Lord: "Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress on them, that they may feel it." Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous. But I said, "Truly this is an affliction, and I must bear it." 20My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken; my children have gone from me, and they are not; there is no one to spread my tent again and to set up my curtains. 21For the shepherds are stupid and do not inquire of the Lord; therefore they have not prospered, and all their 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 pain! Oh the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
• Jeremiah 8:21For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded; I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.
• Jeremiah 9:1Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
• Jeremiah 17:13O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.
• Lamentations 1:2She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.
• Lamentations 2:11My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city.
• Lamentations 3:48my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Psalms 39:9I am mute; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it.
• Psalms 77:10Then I said, "I will appeal to this, to the years of the right hand of the Most High."
• Isaiah 8:17I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
• Lamentations 3:18so I say, "My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the Lord."
• Micah 7:9I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.

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