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Jeremiah Mourns for His People

18 Incurable sorrow has overwhelmed me,
    my heart is sick within me.
19 Listen! My people[a] cry
    from a distant land:
“Is the Lord no longer in Zion?
    Is her king no longer there?”

The Lord Speaks

“Why did they provoke me to anger with their images,
    with their worthless foreign gods?”

The People Speak

20 The harvest is past,
    the summer has ended,
        and we haven’t been delivered.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:19 Lit. the daughter of my people

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.