Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me!
New American Standard Bible
My
King James Version
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Holman Bible
grief has settled on me.
My heart is sick.
International Standard Version
Incurable sorrow has overwhelmed me, my heart is sick within me.
A Conservative Version
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
American Standard Version
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
Amplified
Oh, that I (Jeremiah) could find comfort from my sorrow [for my grief is beyond healing],
My heart is sick and faint within me!
Bible in Basic English
Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.
Julia Smith Translation
Because I afflicted not sorrow upon myself, my heart was sick upon me.
King James 2000
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"My comfort [is gone] from me, sorrow [is] on me, my heart [is] sick.
Modern King James verseion
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Sorrow is come upon me, and heaviness vexeth my heart:
NET Bible
Then I said, "There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart!
New Heart English Bible
"Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow. My heart is faint within me.
The Emphasized Bible
When I would have cheered myself against sorrow, Against me, mine own heart sickened: -
Webster
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
World English Bible
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
Youngs Literal Translation
My refreshing for me is sorrow, For me my heart is sick.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 8:18
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Verse Info
Context Readings
Lament Over Judah
17 For behold, I send among you serpents, vipers against which there is no charm, and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah. 18 My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me! 19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people, from a very far country: Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, with foreign vanities?
Cross References
Isaiah 22:4
Therefore said I, Look away from me; let me weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 1:16-17
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water: for the comforter that should revive my soul is far from me; my children are desolate, for the enemy hath prevailed.
Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
Job 7:13-14
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Jeremiah 6:24
We have heard the report thereof: our hands are grown feeble; anguish hath taken hold of us, pain as of a woman that travaileth.
Jeremiah 10:19-22
Woe is me, for my wound! My stroke is hard to heal, and I had said, Yea, this is my grief, and I will bear it.
Daniel 10:16-17
And behold, one after the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips; and I opened my mouth and spoke, and said unto him that stood before me, My lord, by reason of the vision my pains are turned upon me, and I retain no strength.
Habakkuk 3:16
I heard, and my belly trembled; My lips quivered at the voice; Rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in my place, That I might rest in the day of distress, When their invader shall come up against the people.