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Jeremiah 15:18
Jeremiah 15:18 is verse 18 of Jeremiah chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me— water that is not there.
King James Version
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
World English Bible
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
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Jeremiah 15:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible
16 Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
17 I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.
18 Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me— water that is not there.
19 Therefore this is what the LORD says: “If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must turn to you, but you must not turn to them.
20 Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Jeremiah 14:19Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
Psalms 6:3My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long?
Psalms 13:1How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
Psalms 13:2How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me?
Psalms 13:3Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,
Lamentations 3:1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
Lamentations 3:2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
Lamentations 3:3Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
Lamentations 3:4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
Lamentations 3:5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
Lamentations 3:6He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
Lamentations 3:7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
Lamentations 3:8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3:10He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
Lamentations 3:11He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
Lamentations 3:12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
Lamentations 3:13He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
Lamentations 3:14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
Lamentations 3:16He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
Lamentations 3:17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
Lamentations 3:18So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
Jeremiah 30:12For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.
Jeremiah 30:15Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.
Job 34:6Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
Micah 1:9For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.
Jeremiah 1:18Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
Jeremiah 1:19They will fight against you but will never overcome you, since I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 20:7You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
Jeremiah 14:3The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
Job 6:15But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,
Job 6:16darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow,
Job 6:17but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.
Job 6:18Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.
Job 6:19The caravans of Tema look for water; the travelers of Sheba hope to find it.
Job 6:20They are confounded because they had hoped; their arrival brings disappointment.