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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?)
20 “The time of harvest is past,
    the summer is at an end,
    and we are not saved.”

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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.