THEOSISJeremiah 8:21Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.
עַל־שֶׁ֥בֶר בַּת־עַמִּ֖י הָשְׁבָּ֑רְתִּי קָדַ֕רְתִּי שַׁמָּ֖ה הֶחֱזִקָֽתְנִי׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Jer 14:17And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the virgin daughter of my people is afflicted with a great affliction, with an exceeding grievous evil.
- Nah 2:10She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the heart melteth, and the knees fail, and all the loins lose their strength: and the faces of them all are as the blackness of a kettle.
- Joel 2:6At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle.
- Song 1:5Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept.
- Song 1:6Shew me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou liest in the midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of thy companions.
- Jer 4:19My bowels, my bowels are in part, the senses of my heart are troubled within me, I will not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard the sound of the trumpet, the cry of battle.
- Jer 9:1Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.
- Rom 9:1I speak the truth in Christ: I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost: