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Jeremiah 8:21

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8:21My heart is crushed because my dear people55 are being crushed.56

I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay.57

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Footnotes

  1. 55 Heb “daughter of my people.” For the translation given here see 4:11 and the note on the phrase “dear people” there.
  2. 56 Heb “Because of the crushing of the daughter of my people I am crushed.”
  3. 57 Heb “I go about in black [i.e., mourning clothes]. Dismay has seized me.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded;

I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Since my people are crushed, I am crushed;

I mourn, and horror grips me.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I am broken by the brokenness

of my dear people.

I mourn; horror has taken hold of me.

NLTNew Living Translation

I hurt with the hurt of my people.

I mourn and am overcome with grief.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“Because of the wound of the daughter of my people I am broken down,

I mourn, horror has seized me.

KJV 1900King James Version

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.