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19 Look, the sound of the cry for help of the daughter of my people
    from a distant land,
‘Is Yahweh not in Zion?
    Is her king not in her?’
Why have they provoked me to anger with their images,
    with idols of a foreign land?”
20 The harvest has passed,
    the summer has come to an end,
and we have not received help.[a]

Yahweh’s Lament

21 “Because of the wound of the daughter of my people I am broken down,
    I mourn, horror has seized me.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:20 Or “been saved”