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18 My sorrow is too much to heal. My heart is weak within me. 19 Listen! It is the cry of my people from a far away land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” “Why have they made Me angry with their objects of worship, and with strange gods?” 20 “Gathering time is past, summer is ended, 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.