Text -- Jeremiah 8:21 (NET)

8:21 My heart is crushed because my dear people are being crushed. I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Jer 8:21

¹ tn Heb “daughter of my people.” For the translation given here see 4:11 and the note on the phrase “dear people” there.

² tn Heb “Because of the crushing of the daughter of my people I am crushed.”

³ tn Heb “I go about in black [i.e., mourning clothes]. Dismay has seized me.”