Jeremiah 8:17-19

International Standard Version

¹⁷ Look, I’ll send snakes among you,
    vipers that cannot be charmed,
        and they’ll bite you.”

¹⁸ Incurable sorrow has overwhelmed me,
    my heart is sick within me.
¹⁹ Listen! My people^[a] cry
    from a distant land:
“Is the Lord no longer in Zion?
    Is her king no longer there?”

“Why did they provoke me to anger with their images,
    with their worthless foreign gods?”