Jeremiah 8:18
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
American King James Version (AKJV)
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.
Webster's Revision
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
World English Bible
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
Barnes's Jeremiah 8:18 Bible Commentary
Rather, "O my comfort in sorrow: my heart faints for me." The word translated "comfort" is by some supposed to be corrupt. With these mournful ejaculations a new strophe begins, ending with Jeremiah 9:1, in which the prophet mourns over the miserable fate of his countrymen, among whom he had been earnestly laboring, but all in vain.
Wesley's Jeremiah 8:18 Bible Commentary
8:18 Sorrow - The prophet now seems to speak, how greatly the calamity of this people affected him.
