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The Lord Responds

17 Look, I am sending snakes among you,
venomous snakes that cannot be charmed,
and they will bite you, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah Reacts

18 My joy is gone, grief is upon me,[a]
and my heart is sick.
19 I hear the cry of my dear people from a distant land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
Is her King not there?”

The Lord Responds

Why have they provoked my anger with their carved images,
with their worthless foreign idols?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:18 Or My comforter, grief is upon me. The meaning of one Hebrew word in this line is uncertain.