NET Bible
"My heart is crushed because my dear people are being crushed. I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay."
— Jeremiah 8:21, NET Bible
“For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.”
“For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me. ”
“For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.”
“For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.”
“For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am broken: I am dressed in the clothing of grief; fear has taken me in its grip.”
“For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.”
Then I said,“There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart!
I hear my dear people crying out throughout the length and breadth of the land. They are crying,‘Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her divine King no longer there?’” The LORD answers,“Why then do they provoke me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
“They cry,‘Harvest time has come and gone, and the summer is over, and still we have not been delivered.’
My heart is crushed because my dear people are being crushed. I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay.
There is still medicinal ointment available in Gilead! There is still a physician there! Why then have my dear people not been restored to health?