John Gill Commentary Jeremiah 8:21

"For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me." — Jeremiah 8:21 (ASV)

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt
These are the words, not of God, as Jerom; nor of Jerusalem, as the Targum; but of the prophet, as Kimchi observes, expressing his sympathy with the people in their affliction: and they may be rendered, "for the breach of the daughter of my people" ^F15 , which was made when the city was broken up and destroyed, (Jeremiah 52:7) .

I am broken ;
in heart and spirit:

I am black ;
with grief and sorrow. The Targum is, 'my face is covered with blackness, black as a pot.'

Astonishment has taken hold on me; at the miseries that were come upon his people; and there was no remedy for them, which occasion the following words.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F15: (rbv le) "super contritione", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "super confractione", Schmidt; "ob fractionem", Cocceius.