Why do you cry out over your hurt? is a rhetorical question, which Good News Translation has expressed as a statement. A similar rendering is “There is no point in crying out [or, complaining] over your injury.”

Hurt and incurable are the same words used in verse 12.

Pain occurs in Jeremiah only here and in 45.3; 51.8. A noun from the same Hebrew root is used in 15.18. Your pain is incurable can be translated “No one [or, Nothing] can cure what causes you pain.”

Your guilt is great … your sins are flagrant: See the previous verse.

In some languages it may be best to reorder the clauses in the last part of the verse, as in Good News Translation “I punished you like this because your sins are many and your wickedness is great.”

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Jeremiah. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2003. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .