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.
• 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.”
• 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 belongings to leave the land, you who live under siege. 18For this is what the Lord says: “At this time I will hurl out those who live in this land; I will bring distress on them so that they may be captured.” 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.” 20My tent is destroyed; all its ropes are snapped. My children are gone from me and are no more; no one is left now to pitch my tent or to set up my shelter. 21The shepherds are senseless and do not inquire of the Lord; so they do not prosper 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 4:19Oh, my anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain. Oh, the agony of my heart! My heart pounds within me, I cannot keep silent. For I have heard the sound of the trumpet; I have heard the battle cry.
• Jeremiah 8:21Since my people are crushed, I am crushed; I mourn, and horror grips me.
• Jeremiah 9:1Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night for the slain of my people.
• Jeremiah 17:13Lord, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the Lord, the spring of living water.
• Lamentations 1:2Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
• Lamentations 2:11My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
• Lamentations 3:48Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.
• Psalms 39:9I was silent; I would not open my mouth, for you are the one who has done this.
• Psalms 77:10Then I thought, “To this I will appeal: the years when the Most High stretched out his right hand.
• Isaiah 8:17I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my trust in him.
• Lamentations 3:18So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the Lord.”
• Micah 7:9Because I have sinned against him, I will bear the Lord’s wrath, until he pleads my case and upholds my cause. He will bring me out into the light; I will see his righteousness.

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