Jeremiah 8:17-19

New Catholic Bible

¹⁷ Behold, I will send against you
    venomous snakes that cannot be charmed,
    and they will bite you, says the Lord.
¹⁸ There is no cure for my grief,
    and my heart is faint within me.
¹⁹ Listen to the cry of distress
    from my people in a distant land.
“Is the Lord no longer in Zion?
    Is her king no longer in their midst?”
(Why do they provoke me with their idols
    and with their foreign gods?)