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Jeremiah 8:18

WEB

18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

KJV

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

BSB

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

FBV

18Nothing comforts me[+] in my suffering;[+] I feel terrible inside.

Extra References

Lamentations 1:16-17

16“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.” 17Zion spreads out her hands. There is no one to comfort her. The LORD has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

Jeremiah 6:24

24We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor.

Lamentations 5:17

17For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:

Isaiah 22:4

4Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 10:19-22

19Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.” 20My tent has been destroyed, and all my cords are broken. My children have gone away from me, and they are no more. There is no one to spread my tent any more, to set up my curtains. 21For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not inquired of the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks have scattered. 22The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.

Habakkuk 3:16

16I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

Job 7:13-14

13When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’ 14then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,

Daniel 10:16-17

16Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, “My lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows have overtaken me, and I retain no strength. 17For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? For as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me. There was no breath left in me.”