But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against his people that there was no remedy.
Jeremiah 30:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For this is what the Lord says: Your injury is incurable; your wound most severe. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For thus says the Lord: Your hurt is incurable and your wound is grievous. American Standard Version (1901) For thus saith Jehovah, Thy hurt is incurable, and thy wound grievous. Common English Bible This is what the LORD says: Your injury is incurable; your illness is grave. Catholic Public Domain Version For thus says the Lord: "Your fracture is incurable; your wound is very serious. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For thus saith the Lord: Thy bruise is incurable, thy wound is very grievous. |
But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against his people that there was no remedy.
You are to speak this word to them: Let my eyes overflow with tears; day and night may they not stop, for my dearest people have been destroyed by a crushing blow, an extremely severe wound.
Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you detest Zion? Why do you strike us with no hope of healing for us? We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
Why has my pain become unending, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You truly have become like a mirage to me – water that is not reliable.
Why do you cry out about your injury? Your pain has no cure! I have done these things to you because of your enormous guilt and your innumerable sins.
As a well gushes out its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her. Sickness and wounds keep coming to my attention.
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? So why has the healing of my dear people not come about?
What can I say on your behalf? What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem? What can I liken you to, so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion? For your ruin is as vast as the sea. Who can heal you?
Then he said to me, ‘Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look how they say, “Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.”
When Ephraim saw his disease and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria and sent a delegation to the great king. , But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.
For her wound is incurable and has reached even Judah; it has approached my people’s city gate, as far as Jerusalem.
There is no remedy for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news about you will clap their hands because of you, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?