Jeremiah 8:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

Jeremiah 8:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 1:16-17
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. …
Jeremiah 6:24
We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Isaiah 22:4
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
Job 7:13-14
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-22)

In these verses we have, I. God threatening the destruction of a sinful people. He has borne long with them, but they are still more and more provoking, and therefore now their ruin is resolved on: I will surely consume them (Jer. 8:13), consuming I will consume them, not only surely, but utterly, consume them, will follow them with one judgment after another, till they are quite consumed; it is a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. (Is 22:4). The lamentation of the prophet for the impending calamity of his country. against sorrow--or, with respect to sorrow. Maurer translates, “Oh, my exhilaration as to sorrow!” that is, “Oh, that exhilaration (‘comfort’, from an Arabic root, to shine as the rising sun) would shine upon me as to my sorrow!” in me--within me.