Jeremiah 15:18

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.

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  • Jer 30:15 : 15 What! -- thou criest concerning thy breach! Incurable `is' thy pain, Because of the abundance of thy iniquity, Mighty have been thy sins! I have done these to thee.
  • Mic 1:9 : 9 For mortal `are' her wounds, For it hath come unto Judah, It hath come to a gate of My people -- to Jerusalem.
  • Job 34:6 : 6 Against my right do I lie? Mortal `is' mine arrow -- without transgression.'
  • Jer 14:3 : 3 And their honourable ones have sent their little ones to the water, They have come unto ditches, They have not found water, They have turned back -- their vessels empty! They have been ashamed, And have blushed and covered their head.
  • Jer 20:7 : 7 Thou hast persuaded me, O Jehovah, and I am persuaded; Thou hast hardened me, and dost prevail, I have been for a laughter all the day, Every one is mocking at me,
  • Jer 30:12 : 12 For thus said Jehovah: Incurable is thy breach, grievous thy stroke,
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.
  • Ps 6:3 : 3 And my soul hath been troubled greatly, And Thou, O Jehovah, till when?
  • Ps 13:1-3 : 1 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? -- for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me? 2 Till when do I set counsels in my soul? Sorrow inn my heart daily? Till when is mine enemy exalted over me? 3 Look attentively; Answer me, O Jehovah, my God, Enlighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death,
  • Jer 1:18-19 : 18 And I, lo, I have given thee this day for a fenced city, and for an iron pillar, and for brazen walls over all the land, to the kings of Judah, to its heads, to its priests, and to the people of the land; 19 and they have fought against thee, and they prevail not against thee; for with thee `am' I, -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- to deliver thee.
  • Job 6:15-20 : 15 My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away. 16 That are black because of ice, By them doth snow hide itself. 17 By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place. 18 Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost. 19 Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them. 20 They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded.
  • Lam 3:1-9 : 1 I `am' the man `who' hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath. 2 Me He hath led, and causeth to go `in' darkness, and without light. 3 Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day. 4 He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones. 5 He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness. 6 In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter. 8 Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer. 9 He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked. 10 A bear lying in wait He `is' to me, A lion in secret hiding-places. 11 My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation. 12 He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow. 13 He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver. 14 I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day. 15 He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me `with' wormwood. 16 And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes. 17 And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity. 18 And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.

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    12For thus said Jehovah: Incurable is thy breach, grievous thy stroke,

    13There is none judging thy cause to bind up, Healing medicines there are none for thee.

    14all loving thee have forgotten thee, Thee they do not seek, For with the stroke of an enemy I smote thee, The chastisement of a fierce one, Because of the abundance of thy iniquity, Mighty have been thy sins!

    15What! -- thou criest concerning thy breach! Incurable `is' thy pain, Because of the abundance of thy iniquity, Mighty have been thy sins! I have done these to thee.

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    6Against my right do I lie? Mortal `is' mine arrow -- without transgression.'

  • Jer 10:19
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    19Wo to me for my breaking, Grievious hath been my smiting, And I said, Only, this `is' my sickness, and I bear it.

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  • Lam 1:12-13
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    12`Is it' nothing to you, all ye passing by the way? Look attentively, and see, If there is any pain like my pain, That He is rolling to me? Whom Jehovah hath afflicted In the day of the fierceness of His anger.

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    5Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostacy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart `is' sick.

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    16For these I am weeping, My eye, my eye, is running down with waters, For, far from me hath been a comforter, Refreshing my soul, My sons have been desolate, For mighty hath been an enemy.

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    19Therefore, thus said Jehovah: If thou turnest back, then I bring thee back, Before Me thou dost stand, And if thou bringest out the precious from the vile, As My mouth thou art! They -- they turn back unto thee, And thou dost not turn back unto them.

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    14As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath been like wax, It is melted in the midst of my bowels.

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    19How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle.

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    20See, O Jehovah, for distress `is' to me, My bowels have been troubled, Turned hath been my heart in my midst, For I have greatly provoked, From without bereaved hath the sword, In the house `it is' as death.

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    24Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?

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