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Jeremiah's Sorrow for His People

18 My sorrow cannot be healed;[a]
    I am sick at heart.
19 Listen! Throughout the land
    I hear my people crying out,
“Is the Lord no longer in Zion?
    Is Zion's king no longer there?”
The Lord, their king, replies,
“Why have you made me angry by worshiping your idols
    and by bowing down to your useless foreign gods?”
20 The people cry out,
“The summer is gone, the harvest is over,
    but we have not been saved.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:18 Probable text My sorrow … healed; Hebrew unclear.

18 You who are my Comforter[a] in sorrow,
    my heart is faint(A) within me.
19 Listen to the cry of my people
    from a land far away:(B)
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    Is her King(C) no longer there?”

“Why have they aroused(D) my anger with their images,
    with their worthless(E) foreign idols?”(F)

20 “The harvest is past,
    the summer has ended,
    and we are not saved.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:18 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.