Focused Passage

Jeremiah 8:18-22

No Peace, No Healing: Judah Refuses to Return

The chapter moves from the disgrace of dead leaders and idolatrous bones, to the people's unnatural refusal to return, to the exposure of false scribal wisdom, to the condemnation of prophets and priests who promise peace, to the certainty of judgment, and finally to Jeremiah's anguished lament over a people for whom harvest has passed and healing has not come.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

18My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

19Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”

20“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”

21For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.

22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

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Verse 18

Cross-references

John 14:1Classic cross-references Psalms 13:2Classic cross-references Lamentations 1:22Classic cross-references Isaiah 22:4Classic cross-references Jeremiah 6:24Classic cross-references

Original words

My sorrowיָג֑וֹןH3015Noun - masculine singularis beyondעֲלֵ֣יH5921Prepositionhealingמַבְלִ֥יגִיתִ֖יH4010Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singularmy heartלִבִּ֥יH3820Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular[is] faintדַוָּֽי׃H1742Adjective - masculine singularwithin meעָלַ֖יH5921Preposition | first person common singular

BSB notes

Or O my Comforter in sorrow,

Verse 19

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 32:21Classic cross-references Micah 4:9Classic cross-references Isaiah 39:3Classic cross-references Hosea 13:10Classic cross-references Isaiah 13:5Classic cross-references

Original words

-הִנֵּה־H2009InterjectionListenק֞וֹלH6963Noun - masculine singular constructto the cryשַֽׁוְעַ֣תH7775Noun - feminine singular constructof the daughterבַּת־H1323Noun - feminine singular constructof my peopleעַמִּ֗יH5971Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singularfrom a land far awayמַרְחַקִּ֔יםH4801Noun - masculine plural. . .מֵאֶ֙רֶץ֙H776Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular constructIs the LORDהַֽיהוָה֙H3068Article | Noun - proper - masculine singularnoאֵ֣יןH369Adverblonger in Zionבְּצִיּ֔וֹןH6726Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singularIs herאִם־H518ConjunctionKingמַלְכָּ֖הּH4428Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singularno longerאֵ֣יןH369Adverbthereבָּ֑הּPreposition | third person feminine singularWhyמַדּ֗וּעַH4069Interrogativehave they provoked Me to angerהִכְעִס֛וּנִיH3707Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural | first person common singularwith their carved imagesבִּפְסִלֵיהֶ֖םH6456Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine pluralwith their worthless foreignנֵכָֽר׃H5236Noun - masculine singularidolsבְּהַבְלֵ֥יH1892Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct

Verse 20

Cross-references

Luke 13:25Classic cross-references Matthew 25:1Classic cross-references Proverbs 10:5Classic cross-references Jeremiah 6:4Classic cross-references Luke 19:44Classic cross-references

Original words

The harvestקָצִ֖ירH7105Noun - masculine singularhas passedעָבַ֥רH5674Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singularthe summerקָ֑יִץH7019Noun - masculine singularhas endedכָּ֣לָהH3615Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singularbut weוַאֲנַ֖חְנוּH587Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common pluralhave notל֥וֹאH3808Adverb - Negative particlebeen savedנוֹשָֽׁעְנוּ׃H3467Verb - Nifal - Perfect - first person common plural

Verse 21

Cross-references

Jeremiah 14:17Classic cross-references Jeremiah 14:2Classic cross-references Jeremiah 9:1Classic cross-references Joel 2:6Classic cross-references Nahum 2:10Classic cross-references

Original words

Forעַל־H5921Prepositionthe brokennessשֶׁ֥בֶרH7667Noun - masculine singular constructof the daughterבַּת־H1323Noun - feminine singular constructof my peopleעַמִּ֖יH5971Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singularI am crushedהָשְׁבָּ֑רְתִּיH7665Verb - Hofal - Perfect - first person common singularI mournקָדַ֕רְתִּיH6937Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singularhorrorשַׁמָּ֖הH8047Noun - feminine singularhas gripped meהֶחֱזִקָֽתְנִי׃H2388Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person feminine singular | first person common singular

Verse 22

Cross-references

2 Chronicles 7:14Classic cross-references Exodus 15:26Classic cross-references Jeremiah 30:17Classic cross-references Jeremiah 46:11Classic cross-references Genesis 37:25Classic cross-references

Original words

Is there noאֵ֣יןH369Adverbbalmהַצֳרִי֙H6875Article | Noun - masculine singularin Gileadבְּגִלְעָ֔דH1568Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular. . .אִם־H518ConjunctionIs noאֵ֣יןH369Adverbphysicianרֹפֵ֖אH7495Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singularthereשָׁ֑םH8033AdverbWhyמַדּ֙וּעַ֙H4069Interrogativethenכִּ֗יH3588Conjunctionhas the healthאֲרֻכַ֖תH724Noun - feminine singular constructof the daughterבַּת־H1323Noun - feminine singular constructof my peopleעַמִּֽי׃H5971Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singularnotלֹ֣אH3808Adverb - Negative particlebeen restoredעָֽלְתָ֔הH5927Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular

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