Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 10:19

"Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it." — Jeremiah 10:19 (ASV)

Woe is me ... — From this verse to the end of the chapter, we have, with the prophet’s characteristic dramatic vividness, the lamentation of the daughter of Israel in her captivity, bewailing the transgressions that had led to it. That this follows immediately on Jeremiah 10:18 gives some support to the view given above regarding the force of the words that they may find. Israel is represented as having found in both aspects of the word.

Grievous. — In the sense of almost incurable.

This is a grief ... — Better, this is my grief or plague, what I have brought upon myself and must therefore bear. To accept the punishment was in this, as in all cases, the first step to reformation.