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My comfortמַבְלִיגִיתִיinעֲלֵיsorrow!יָגוֹןWithin meעָלַיmy heartלִבִּיis faint.דַוָּי
Jeremiah 8:18
Study it in the app“My comfort in sorrow! Within me my heart is faint.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 8:18, word by word
- My comfortמַבְלִיגִיתִmavligiti
uncertain
An obscure word: relief, comfort; or, according to others, desolation.
Where else “mavligiti” appears- sorrowיָגוֹןyagon
sorrow, grief
Deep sorrow, grief.
Where else “yagon” appears- my heartלִבִּlibi
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “libi” appears- is faintדַוָּיdavay
faint, sick
Sick, faint; also troubled within.
Where else “davay” appears
Translation note
The first Hebrew word is obscure; it can be understood “my comfort” or “without comfort.”
The context
17“For look, I am sending among you serpents, vipers for which there is no charm, and they will bite you, declares YHWH.”
18 · This verse (above)
19Listen! The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is YHWH not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images, with foreign vapors?”