Jeremiah 15:18

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Why has my pain become perpetual, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream, waters that are unreliable?

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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?

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? will you be altogether to me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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?

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Why is my pain{H3511} perpetual,{H5331} and my wound{H4347} incurable,{H605} which refuseth{H3985} to be healed?{H7495} wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful{H391} [brook], as waters{H4325} that fail?{H539}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Why is my pain{H3511} perpetual{H5331}, and my wound{H4347} incurable{H605}{(H8803)}, which refuseth{H3985}{(H8765)} to be healed{H7495}{(H8736)}? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar{H391}, and as waters{H4325} that fail{H539}{(H8738)}?

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Shall my heuynes endure for euer? Are my plages then so greate, yt they maye neuer be healed? Wilt thou be as a water, that falleth, and can not contynue?

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Why is mine heauines continuall? And my plague desperate and cannot be healed? why art thou vnto me as a lyar, and as waters that faile?

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Shall my heauinesse endure for euer? Are my plagues then so great that they may neuer be healed? Wylt thou be as one that is false, and as a water that falleth, and can not continue?

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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?

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Why hath my pain been perpetual? And my wound incurable? It hath refused to be healed, Thou art surely to me as a failing stream, Waters not stedfast.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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?

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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?

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish? Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound? Will you let me down when I need you like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?”

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 30:15 : 15 Why do you cry out over your injury? Your pain is incurable. Because of your great guilt and many sins, I have done these things to you.
  • Mic 1:9 : 9 For her wound is incurable; it has even reached Judah. It has reached the gates of my people, even to Jerusalem itself.
  • Job 34:6 : 6 Though I am innocent, I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I have committed no offense.
  • Jer 14:3 : 3 The nobles sent their servants for water; they went to the cisterns but found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and humiliated, covering their heads.
  • Jer 20:7 : 7 LORD, you deceived me, and I was deceived. You overpowered me and prevailed. I am ridiculed all day long; everyone mocks me.
  • Jer 30:12 : 12 This is what the LORD says: Your wound is incurable; your injury is beyond healing.
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Have You utterly rejected Judah? Does Your soul loathe Zion? Why have You struck us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace, but no good has come; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
  • Ps 6:3 : 3 Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am weak; heal me, LORD, for my bones are shaking with fear.
  • Ps 13:1-3 : 1 For the director of music, a psalm of David. 2 How long, Lord, will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? 3 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and have sorrow in my heart daily? How long will my enemy triumph over me?
  • Jer 1:18-19 : 18 Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls to stand against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land. 19 They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to rescue you,' declares the LORD.
  • Job 6:15-20 : 15 My brothers have acted deceitfully, like a wadi, like streams that flow away. 16 Streams dark with ice, where the snow conceals itself, 17 but when they are warmed, they vanish; when heated, they disappear from their place. 18 Caravans turn aside from their paths; they go into the wasteland and perish. 19 The caravans of Tema look for them, the travelers of Sheba expect them. 20 They are ashamed because they trusted; they arrive there and are disappointed.
  • Lam 3:1-9 : 1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of His wrath. 2 He has driven me away and brought me into darkness, not into light. 3 Surely against me He turns His hand again and again, all day long. 4 He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones. 5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 6 He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead. 7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed down my chains. 8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. 9 He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked. 10 He is like a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding. 11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate. 12 He has bent His bow and made me the target for His arrows. 13 He has pierced my inward parts with the arrows from His quiver. 14 I have become the laughingstock of all my people; their mocking song all day long. 15 He has filled me with bitterness; He has made me drink wormwood. 16 He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in ashes. 17 My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is. 18 So I say, 'My strength is gone, and so is my hope from the LORD.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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    12 This is what the LORD says: Your wound is incurable; your injury is beyond healing.

    13 There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your wound, no healing for you.

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    77%

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    76%

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    76%

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