For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Parallel translations
- WEB For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.
- BSB For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
- NKJV For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. I am mourning; Astonishment has taken hold of me.
- NASB I am broken over the brokenness of the daughter of my people. I mourn, dismay has taken hold of me.
- NLT I hurt with the hurt of my people. I mourn and am overcome with grief.
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Quick answer
Jeremiah is broken and mourns over the wound of his people. He grieves their ruin as if it were his own.
Overview
The prophet shares in the very hurt of 'the daughter of my people,' overcome by mourning and dismay. His sympathy is not detached pity but heartfelt identification with their pain. Such compassionate grief mirrors God's reluctance in judgment and foreshadows Christ, the Man of sorrows who was wounded for the transgressions of His people.
Cross-references & the web
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- 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.
- Nah 2:10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
- Joel 2:6Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
- Ps 137:3–6For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
- Song 1:5–6I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
- 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!
- Rom 9:1–3I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
- Luke 19:41And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
- 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.
- Neh 2:3And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
- Jer 17:16As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.
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