Bible Strands
Jeremiah 30:15
Why 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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks through Jeremiah to Judah during an oracle of judgment, immediately after declaring He struck them as an enemy would due to their iniquity.
The words — The Hebrew אָנ֖וּשׁ ('a.Nush) means incurable, and שִׁבְרֵ֔/ךְ (shiv.Re/kh) denotes fracture or wound.
The thread — The theme of incurable injury recurs in Jeremiah 30:12, while the reversal of judgment against plunderers appears in Jeremiah 30:16.
Why it lands — The text attributes the unhealed wound directly to God's response to their great iniquity and numerous sins. It demands acknowledgment that the suffering described is a direct consequence of covenant failure, not random misfortune.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 30:14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.
- Jeremiah 30:12 For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.
- Joshua 9:10 and all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordan—Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth.
- 2 Chronicles 36:14 Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 9:6 and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
- Ezra 9:13 After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),
- Nehemiah 9:26 But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
- Job 34:6 Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
- Job 34:29 But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
- Isaiah 1:4 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.