Jeremiah 8:18 - Exposition

When I would comfort myself , etc. The text is here extremely difficult, and if there is corruption anywhere it is in the opening of this verse. Ewald and Graf suppose an ellipsis, and render, "(Oh for) my enlivening [ i . e . an enlivening for me] in trouble!" Hitzig more naturally renders in the vocative, "My enlivener in trouble" which he supposes to be in apposition to my heart . Do Dieu wavers between this and the view that it is an address to his wife, "Quae marito solatio est." (See, however, Jeremiah 16:2 .)