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Jeremiah 15:5

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15:5The Lord cried out,7

“Who in the world8 will have pity on you, Jerusalem?

Who will grieve over you?

Who will stop long enough9

to inquire about how you are doing?10

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Footnotes

  1. 7 The words “The Lord cried out” are not in the text. However, they are necessary to show the shift in address between speaking to Jeremiah in vv. 1–4 about the people and addressing Jerusalem in vv. 5–6 and the shift back to the address to Jeremiah in vv. 7–9. The words “oracle of the Lord” are, moreover, found at the beginning of v. 6.
  2. 8 The words, “in the world” are not in the text but are the translator’s way of trying to indicate that this rhetorical question expects a negative answer.
  3. 9 Heb “turn aside.”
  4. 10 Or “about your well-being”; Heb “about your welfare” (שָׁלוֹם, shalom).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem,

or who will grieve for you?

Who will turn aside

to ask about your welfare?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem?

Who will mourn for you?

Who will stop to ask how you are?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem?

Who will show sympathy toward you?

Who will turn aside

to ask about your well-being?

NLTNew Living Translation

“Who will feel sorry for you, Jerusalem?

Who will weep for you?

Who will even bother to ask how you are?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“For who will have compassion on you, O Jerusalem,

or who will show sympathy to you,

or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

KJV 1900King James Version

For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?