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 your belongings together and prepare to leave the land, you people of Jerusalem who are being besieged. 18For the Lord says, “I will now throw out those who live in this land. I will bring so much trouble on them that they will actually feel it.” And I cried out, “We are doomed! Our wound is severe! We once thought, ‘This is only an illness. And we will be able to bear it!’ 20But our tents have been destroyed. The ropes that held them in place have been ripped apart. Our children are gone and are not coming back. There is no survivor to put our tents back up, no one left to hang their tent curtains in place. 21For our leaders are stupid. They have not sought the Lord’s advice. So they do not act wisely, and the people they are responsible for have all been 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 4:19I said, “Oh, the feeling in the pit of my stomach! I writhe in anguish. Oh, the pain in my heart! My heart pounds within me. I cannot keep silent. For I hear the sound of the trumpet; the sound of the battle cry pierces my soul!
• Jeremiah 8:21My heart is crushed because my dear people are being crushed. I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay.
• Jeremiah 9:1(8:23) I wish that my head were a well full of water and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people who have been killed.
• Jeremiah 17:13You are the one in whom Israel may find hope. All who leave you will suffer shame. Those who turn away from you will be consigned to the nether world. For they have rejected you, the Lord, the fountain of life.
• Lamentations 1:2She weeps bitterly at night; tears stream down her cheeks. She has no one to comfort her among all her lovers. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies. ג (Gimel)
• Lamentations 2:11My eyes are worn out from weeping; my stomach is in knots. My heart is poured out on the ground due to the destruction of my helpless people; children and infants faint in the town squares. ל (Lamed)
• Lamentations 3:48Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed. ע (Ayin)
• Psalms 39:9I am silent and cannot open my mouth because of what you have done.
• Psalms 77:10Then I said, “I am sickened by the thought that the sovereign One might become inactive.
• Isaiah 8:17I will wait patiently for the Lord, who has rejected the family of Jacob; I will wait for him.
• Lamentations 3:18So I said, “My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the Lord.” ז (Zayin)
• Micah 7:9I must endure the Lord’s anger, for I have sinned against him. But then he will defend my cause, and accomplish justice on my behalf. He will lead me out into the light; I will experience firsthand his deliverance.

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