Jeremiah 8:19-21

The Voice

¹⁹ Listen, my Lord, don’t You hear the daughter of our people weeping, crying out to You from exile?
“Is the Eternal no longer in Zion? Does her King no longer reside there?”

Eternal One: But Jeremiah, why have they provoked Me with their dark and evil practices?
Why do they worship these handcrafted idols, these worthless gods?

Jeremiah understands that the time for Judah to repent and change her ways is past. She has had her last chance, but that doesn’t stop him from pleading with God.

²⁰Jeremiah: The harvest is over, summer has ended,
        and we are not saved.
²¹    And because the daughter of my people is being ripped apart, I am ripped apart.
        From within, a dark and cold hurt arises.
    From without, I am strangled by the horror of it all.