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.