Jeremiah 8:21
For the hurt ... hurt - literally, "Because of the breaking ... broken." These are the words of the prophet, whose heart is crushed by the cry of his countrymen.
I am black - Or, I go mourning.
19 Listen! The voice,
The cry of the daughter of my people
From aa far country:
“Is not the Lord in Zion?
Is not her King in her?”
“Why have they provoked Me to anger
With their carved images—
With foreign idols?”
The cry of the daughter of my people
From aa far country:
“Is not the Lord in Zion?
Is not her King in her?”
“Why have they provoked Me to anger
With their carved images—
With foreign idols?”
21 aFor the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt.
I am bmourning;
Astonishment has taken hold of me.
I am bmourning;
Astonishment has taken hold of me.
22 Is there no abalm in Gilead,
Is there no physician there?
Why then is there no recovery
For the health of the daughter of my people?
Is there no physician there?
Why then is there no recovery
For the health of the daughter of my people?
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
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Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 8:21:
Psalms 35:14
Isaiah 22:4
Nahum 1:1
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