Jeremiah 8:18

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.”

— WEB

“When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.”

— KJV

“Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.”

— ASV

Cross-references

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Jeremiah 6:24 "We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor."
Lamentations 5:17 "For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim."
Lamentations 1:16-17 "“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My childr…"
Isaiah 22:4 "Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people."
Habakkuk 3:16 "I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must …"
Jeremiah 10:19-22 "Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”"
Job 7:13-14 "When I say, ‘My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;’"
Daniel 10:16-17 "Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, “M…"

Commentary

(Isa 22:4). The lamentation of the prophet for the impending calamity of his country. against sorrow--or, with respect to sorrow. MAURER translates, "Oh, my exhilaration as to sorrow!" that is, "Oh, that exhilaration ('comfort', from an Arabic root, to shine as the rising sun) would shine upon me as to my sorrow!" in me--within me.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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