Jeremiah 8:18 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁸ When in grief I would seek comfort; my heart is sick within me.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ My sorrow is above sorrow: my heart mourneth within me.

Jeremiah 8:18 Cross References

Psalm 143:7

Hasten, answer me, O יהוה; My spirit fails! Do not hide Your face from me, Lest I be like those going down into the pit.

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said, “Look away from me, let me weep bitterly. Do not try to comfort me because of the ravaging of the daughter of my people.”

Jeremiah 23:9

My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man overcome by wine, because of יהוה, and because of His set-apart words.

Jeremiah 4:19

O my inward parts, my inward parts! I am in pain! O the walls of my heart! My heart pounds in me, I am not silent. For you have heard, O my being, a voice of a shophar, a shout of battle!

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard the report of it, our hands grow weak. Distress has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, and I would weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Lamentations 5:17

Because of this our heart has been sick, Because of these our eyes have become dim,

Habakkuk 3:16

I heard, and my body trembled, My lips quivered at the sound, Rottenness came into my bones. And I trembled within myself, That I might rest for the day of distress, To come upon the people who would attack us.