Jeremiah 15:18

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?

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Other Translations

  • 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?

  • 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?

  • 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 over your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable because of the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.
  • Mic 1:9 : 9 For her wound is incurable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
  • Job 34:6 : 6 Should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.
  • Jer 14:3 : 3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the water; they came to the wells and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
  • Jer 20:7 : 7 O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived: you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am in derision daily, everyone mocks me.
  • Jer 30:12 : 12 For thus says the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is severe.
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us down, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, but behold, trouble!
  • Ps 6:3 : 3 My soul is also greatly troubled: but You, O LORD, how long?
  • Ps 13:1-3 : 1 How long will You forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? 3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
  • Jer 1:18-19 : 18 For behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land. 19 They shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you, says the LORD, to deliver you.
  • Job 6:15-20 : 15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully like a brook, like the streams of brooks that pass away, 16 Which are dark because of the ice, and where the snow is hidden: 17 At the time when they grow warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. 18 The paths of their way turn aside; they go to nothing and perish. 19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. 20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came there and were ashamed.
  • Lam 3:1-9 : 1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath. 2 He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me He is turned; He turns His hand against me all day long. 4 My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones. 5 He has built against me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 6 He has set me in dark places, like those long dead. 7 He has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy. 8 Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer. 9 He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked. 10 He was to me like a bear lying in wait, and like 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 set me as a target for the arrow. 13 He has caused the arrows of His quiver to pierce my innermost parts. 14 I was a ridicule to all my people; their song all the day. 15 He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood. 16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; He has covered me with ashes. 17 You have moved my soul far from peace; I forgot prosperity. 18 And I said, My strength and my hope perished from the LORD.

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