Water disappears from the sea, and a river dries up and is parched,
Jeremiah 15:18 - The Scriptures 2009 Why is my pain without end and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Are You to me like a failing stream, as waters not steadfast? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Why is my pain perpetual and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you indeed be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail and are uncertain? American Standard Version (1901) Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail? Common English Bible Why am I always in pain? Why is my wound incurable, so far beyond healing? You have become for me as unreliable as a spring gone dry! Catholic Public Domain Version Why has my sorrow become never-ending, and why has my wound become so dire that it refuses to be cured? It has become for me like the deception of untrustworthy waters." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed? It is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful waters that cannot be trusted. |
Water disappears from the sea, and a river dries up and is parched,
Would I lie concerning my right? My wound is incurable – without transgression.’
And my being has been greatly troubled; And You, O יהוה – till when?
Have You completely rejected Yehuḏah? Has Your being loathed Tsiyon? Why have You stricken us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but there was no good; and for the time of healing, but see – fear!
“And their nobles have sent their little ones for water, they went to the cisterns and found no water, they returned with their vessels empty. They were put to shame, and blushed and covered their heads.
Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?
O יהוה, You enticed me, and I was enticed. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have been ridiculed all day long, everyone mocks me.
“For thus said יהוה, ‘Your breach is incurable, your wound is grievous.
Why do you cry about your breach? Your pain is incurable. Because of your many crookednesses, because your sins have increased, I have done this to you.
Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Moresheth Gath, the houses of Aḵziḇ becoming a deception to the sovereigns of Yisra’ĕl.
For her wounds are incurable. For it has come to Yehuḏah, it has come to the gate of My people, to Yerushalayim.