Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
Parallel translations
- WEB Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious: but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”
- BSB Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”
- NKJV Woe is me for my hurt! My wound is severe. But I say, “Truly this is an infirmity, And I must bear it.”
- NASB ¶Woe to me, because of my injury! My wound is incurable. But I said, “This certainly is a sickness, And I must endure it.”
- NLT My wound is severe, and my grief is great. My sickness is incurable, but I must bear it.
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Quick answer
A voice laments a grievous, incurable wound yet resolves to bear it. The people, or the prophet on their behalf, accept the sorrow of judgment.
Overview
The speaker—likely Jerusalem personified or the prophet voicing her grief—cries over a serious injury and submits to bearing it as their lot. The lament mingles pain with a sober acceptance that the suffering is deserved. The verse models honest grief under God's chastening hand and a measure of submission that, rightly directed, opens toward repentance and hope.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Mic 7:9I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
- Jer 14:17Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
- Lam 3:18–21And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
- Lam 3:39–40Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
- Jer 4:31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
- Ps 39:9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
- Jer 9:1Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
- Isa 8:17And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
- Ps 77:10And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
- Jer 4:19My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
- Jer 8:21For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
- Lam 3:48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Jer 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
- Lam 2:11–22Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
- Lam 1:12–22Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
- Lam 1:2She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
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