Jeremiah 45:3
Good News Translation
you are saying, 'I give up! The LORD has added sorrow to my troubles. I am worn out from groaning, and I can't find any rest!'

New Revised Standard Version
You said, “Woe is me! The LORD has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.”

Contemporary English Version
You are moaning and blaming me, the LORD, for your troubles and sorrow, and for being so tired that you can't even rest.

New American Bible
You said, “Woe is me! the LORD has added grief to my pain. I have worn myself out with groaning; rest eludes me.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast said: Woe is me, wretch that I am, for the Lord hath added sorrow to my sorrow: I am wearied with my groans, and I find no rest.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast said: Woe is me, wretch that I am, for the Lord hath added sorrow to my sorrow: I am wearied with my groans, and I find no rest.

Woe

Jeremiah 9:1 Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.

Jeremiah 20:7 Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I am deceived: thou hast been stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I am become a laughingstock all the day, all scoff at me.

Psalm 120:5 Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar:

added

Genesis 37:34,35 And tearing his garments, he put on sackcloth, mourning for his son a long time. . . .

Genesis 42:36-38 Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me. . . .

Numbers 11:11-15 And he said to the Lord: Why hast thou afflicted thy servant? Wherefore do I not find favour before thee? And why hast thou laid the weight of all this people upon me? . . .

Joshua 7:7-9 And Joshua said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou bring this people over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and to destroy us? would God we had stayed beyond the Jordan, as we began. . . .

Job 16:11-13 God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked. . . .

Job 23:2 Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.

Psalm 42:7 Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.

Lamentations 3:1-19,32 Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation. . . .

I fainted

Jeremiah 8:18 My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me.

Psalm 27:13 I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

Psalm 77:3,4 I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away. . . .

Proverbs 24:10 If thou lose hope, being weary in the day of distress, thy strength shall be diminished.

Lamentations 1:13,22 Mem. From above he hath sent fire into my bones, and hath chastised me: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate, wasted with sorrow all the day long. . . .

2 Corinthians 4:1,16 Therefore seeing we have this ministration, according as we have obtained mercy, we faint not. . . .

Galatians 6:9 And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing.

2 Thessalonians 3:13 But you, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

Hebrews 12:3-5 For think diligently upon him that endured such opposition from sinners against himself that you be not wearied, fainting in your minds. . . .

Context
Jeremiah's Message to Baruch
2Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to thee, Baruch: 3Thou hast said: Woe is me, wretch that I am, for the Lord hath added sorrow to my sorrow: I am wearied with my groans, and I find no rest.4Thus saith the Lord: Thus shalt thou say to him: Behold, them whom I have built, I do destroy: and them whom I have planted, I do pluck up, and all this land.…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 4:1
Therefore seeing we have this ministration, according as we have obtained mercy, we faint not.

2 Corinthians 4:16
For which cause we faint not: but though our outward man is corrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Galatians 6:9
And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing.

Psalm 6:6
I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I will water my couch with my tears.

Psalm 69:3
I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.

Jeremiah 45:2
Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to thee, Baruch:

Jeremiah 45:2
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