World English Bible
Jeremiah 8:21
“For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 8
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Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?
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The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
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For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.
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Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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