Jeremiah 8:21

8:21 My heart is crushed because my dear people ¹  are being crushed. ² 

I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay. ³ 

Jeremiah 30:12

The Lord Will Heal the Wounds of Judah

30:12 Moreover, ⁴  the Lord says to the people of Zion, ⁵ 

“Your injuries are incurable;

your wounds are severe. ⁶ 

Jeremiah 51:54

51:54 Cries of anguish will come from Babylon,

the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians.

[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.

[8:21]  ² tn Heb “Because of the crushing of the daughter of my people I am crushed.”

[8:21]  ³ tn Heb “I go about in black [i.e., mourning clothes]. Dismay has seized me.”

[30:12]  ⁴ tn The particle כִּי (ki) here is parallel to the one in v. 5 that introduces the first oracle. See the discussion in the translator’s note there.

[30:12]  ⁵ tn The pronouns in vv. 10-17 are second feminine singular referring to a personified entity. That entity is identified in v. 17 as Zion, which here stands for the people of Zion.

[30:12]  ⁶ sn The wounds to the body politic are those of the incursions from the enemy from the north referred to in Jer 4:6; 6:1 over which Jeremiah and even God himself have lamented (Jer 8:21; 10:19; 14:17). The enemy from the north has been identified as Babylon and has been identified as the agent of God’s punishment of his disobedient people (Jer 1:15; 4:6; 25:9).