Jeremiah 8:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Oh, that I [Jeremiah] could comfort myself against sorrow, [for my grief is beyond healing], my heart is sick and faint within me!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ No healing, only grief; my heart is broken.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ My sorrow is beyond sorrow; my heart mourns within me.

Jeremiah 8:18 Cross References

Lamentations 5:17

Because of this our hearts are sick; because of these things our eyes have grown dim:

Jeremiah 6:24

“We have heard news of them; our hands fall helpless; anguish has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in labor.

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said: “Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears; do not try to comfort me for the destruction of my beloved people.”

Habakkuk 3:16

I hear, and I tremble within; my lips quiver at the sound. Rottenness enters into my bones, and my steps tremble beneath me. I wait quietly for the day of calamity to come upon the people who attack us.

Psalm 143:7

Answer me quickly, O Lord; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, or I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.

Jeremiah 9:1

O that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Jeremiah 23:9

Concerning the prophets: My heart is crushed within me; all my bones shake; I have become like a drunkard, like one overcome by wine, because of the Lord and because of his holy words.

Jeremiah 4:19

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.