Tree of Life Version
Jeremiah 10:19
19Oy to me because of my brokenness! My wound is incurable. Yet I said, “This is simply a sickness and I must bear it.”
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
17Pick up your bundle from the ground, you who live under siege. 18For thus says Adonai: “I am about to hurl the inhabitants out of the land. At this time I will press hard on them so that they will be found out.” Oy to me because of my brokenness! My wound is incurable. Yet I said, “This is simply a sickness and I must bear it.” 20“My tent is destroyed and all my ropes are snapped. My children are gone from me and are no more. No one is left to stretch out my tent or set up my tent curtains. 21For the shepherds are stupid! They have not sought Adonai. Therefore they have not acted wisely and all their flocks are scattered.”
Read all of Jeremiah 10Jeremiah 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 stomach, my stomach! I writhe in anguish! The pain of my heart! My heart is pounding within me! I cannot keep silent because I have heard, O my soul, the sound of the shofar, the battle-cry of war.
- Jeremiah 8:21“Because of the brokenness of the daughter of my people, I am brokenhearted. I mourn—desolation grips me.
- Jeremiah 9:1If only I had a travelers’ lodging place in the wilderness, then I might leave my people and get away from them! For they are all adulterers, a bunch of traitors.
- Jeremiah 17:13Adonai, You are the hope of Israel! All who forsake You will be ashamed. Those who depart from You will be written in the dirt, for they have forsaken Adonai, the fountain of living waters.
- Lamentations 1:2Bitterly she weeps in the night, her 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 are filled with tears. My stomach is in torment. My heart is poured out on the ground over the destruction of the daughter of my people— as young children and infants languish in the city squares.
- Lamentations 3:48Streams of tears run down my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Psalms 39:9Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the scorn of a fool.
- Psalms 77:10Has God forgotten to be gracious? Or has He in anger withdrawn his mercies?” Selah
- Isaiah 8:17I will wait for Adonai, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look eagerly for Him.
- Lamentations 3:18So I said, “My endurance has perished, and my hope from Adonai.”
- Micah 7:9I will bear the indignation of Adonai, because I have sinned against Him, until He pleads my cause, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light, and I will behold 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
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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
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