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Jeremiah 8

Jer. 8:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For the hurt
sheber (Hebrew #7667)
from 7665; a fracture, figuratively, ruin; specifically, a solution (of a dream)
KJV usage: affliction, breach, breaking, broken(-footed, -handed), bruise, crashing, destruction, hurt, interpretation, vexation.
Pronounce: sheh'-ber
Origin: or sheber {shay'-ber}
of the daughter
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
of my people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
am I hurt
shabar (Hebrew #7665)
to burst (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: break (down, off, in pieces, up), broken((-hearted)), bring to the birth, crush, destroy, hurt, quench, X quite, tear, view (by mistake for 7663).
Pronounce: shaw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
; I am black
qadar (Hebrew #6937)
to be ashy, i.e. dark-colored; by implication, to mourn (in sackcloth or sordid garments)
KJV usage: be black(-ish), be (make) dark(-en), X heavily, (cause to) mourn.
Pronounce: kaw-dar'
Origin: a primitive root
u; astonishment
shammah (Hebrew #8047)
ruin; by implication, consternation
KJV usage: astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.
Pronounce: sham-maw'
Origin: from 8074
hath taken hold
chazaq (Hebrew #2388)
to fasten upon; hence, to seize, be strong (figuratively, courageous, causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify), obstinate; to bind, restrain, conquer
KJV usage: aid, amend, X calker, catch, cleave, confirm, be constant, constrain, continue, be of good (take) courage(-ous, -ly), encourage (self), be established, fasten, force, fortify, make hard, harden, help, (lay) hold (fast), lean, maintain, play the man, mend, become (wax) mighty, prevail, be recovered, repair, retain, seize, be (wax) sore, strengthen (self), be stout, be (make, shew, wax) strong(-er), be sure, take (hold), be urgent, behave self valiantly, withstand.
Pronounce: khaw-zak'
Origin: a primitive root
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Joel 2:6• 6Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. (Joel 2:6)

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Cross References

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the hurt.
Jer. 4:19• 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. 4:19)
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Jer. 9:1• 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! (Jer. 9:1)
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Jer. 14:17• 17And thou shalt say this word unto them: Let mine eyes run down with tears, night and day, and not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow. (Jer. 14:17)
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Jer. 17:16• 16But as for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd in following thee, neither have I desired the fatal day, thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face. (Jer. 17:16)
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Neh. 2:3• 3And I said to the king, Let the king live for ever! Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, and the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? (Neh. 2:3)
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Psa. 137:3‑6• 3For there our captors asked us words of song,{HR}And our spoilers mirth, [saying] Sing to us from a song of Zion.
 4How shall we sing the song of Jehovah on a strange ground?
 5If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [its skill].
 6Let my tongue cleave to my palate, if I do not remember thee,{HR}If I do not raise Jerusalem above my chief joy. (Psa. 137:3‑6)
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Luke 19:41• 41And when he drew near, on seeing the city, he wept over it, (Luke 19:41)
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Rom. 9:1‑3• 1Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in [the] Holy Spirit,
 2that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart,
 3for I could wish, I myself, to be a curse from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to flesh, (Rom. 9:1‑3)
I am.
Song of Sol. 1:5‑6• 5I [am] black but comely, O daughter of Jerusalem,{HR}As the tents of Kedar,{HR}As the curtains of Solomon.
 6Look not upon me, because I [am] black,{HR}Because the sun hath looked upon (scorched) me.{HR}My mother's sons were angry with me;{HR}They made me keeper of the vineyards:{HR}Mine own vineyard have I not kept. (Song of Sol. 1:5‑6)
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Joel 2:6• 6Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. (Joel 2:6)
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Nah. 2:10• 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. (Nah. 2:10)

J. N. Darby Translation

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—For thea breach of the daughter of my people am I crushed; I go mourning; astonishment hath taken hold of me.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "crushing," or "destruction" as ch. 6.1. The word is the same in ver. 11 and ch. 6.14, and as the verb "crushed" in this verse, and "ruin," Lam. 2.11.

W. Kelly Translation

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—For the breach of the daughter of my people am I crushed; I go mourning; astonishment hath taken hold of me.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)