Jeremiah 15:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁸ 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?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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)

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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.

Jeremiah 15:18 Cross References

Job 14:11

As the waters fail from the sea, And the river decayeth and drieth up;

Job 34:6

Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.

Psalm 6:3

My soul also is sore vexed: And thou, O LORD, how long?

Jeremiah 14:19

Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold dismay!

Jeremiah 14:3

And their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the pits, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty: they are ashamed and confounded, and cover their heads.

Jeremiah 20:18

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Jeremiah 20:7

O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a laughingstock all the day, every one mocketh me.

Jeremiah 30:12

For thus saith the LORD, Thy hurt is incurable, and thy wound grievous.

Jeremiah 30:15

Why criest thou for thy hurt? thy pain is incurable: for the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

Micah 1:14

Therefore shalt thou give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing unto the kings of Israel.

Micah 1:9

For her wounds are incurable: for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.