Jeremiah 8:21

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַל־שֶׁ֥בֶר בַּת־עַמִּ֖י הָשְׁבָּ֑רְתִּי קָדַ֕רְתִּי שַׁמָּ֖ה הֶחֱזִקָֽתְנִי׃

Transliteration

For-šeber bat-ʿammî I am hāšbārtî; qādarttî, šammāh has heḥĕzîqatnî.

Grammar Details

*šeber*: construct state - wound/injury of
*bat*: construct state - daughter of
*ʿammî*: noun with 1st person singular suffix - my people
*hāšbārtî*: hophal perfect 1st person singular - I am broken
*qādarttî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I am darkened/mourning
*šammāh*: noun - horror/astonishment
*heḥĕzîqatnî*: hiphil perfect 3rd person feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix - it has seized me

Word Meanings

*šeber*: wound/injury/fracture
*hāšbārtî*: I am broken/shattered/crushed
*qādarttî*: I am darkened/in mourning/gloomy
*šammāh*: horror/astonishment/dismay
*heḥĕzîqatnî*: it has seized me/taken hold of me/overpowered me

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Referenced Verses

Jer 14:17 : 17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
Joel 2:6 : 6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
Nah 2:10 : 10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
Jer 4:19 : 19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Jer 9:1 : 1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Rom 9:1-3 : 1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Neh 2:3 : 3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
Ps 137:3-6 : 3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land? 5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. 6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Song 1:5-6 : 5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. 6 Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Luke 19:41 : 41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Jer 17:16 : 16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.

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