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17 See, I will send serpents against you,
    adders, which will not be charmed,
    and they will bite you,
    declares the Lord.

Jeremiah Mourns for His People

18 My sorrow is beyond healing;
    my heart is faint within me.
19 Listen! The cry of the daughter of my people
    from a far country:
“Is not the Lord in Zion?
    Is not her king in her?”

“Why have they provoked Me to anger with their graven images,
    with foreign vanities?”

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