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Jeremiah’s Grief over His People’s Punishment

18 Sorrow has overwhelmed me.
    I am sick at heart!

19 The cry from my dear people comes from a distant land:
    “Isn’t Yahweh in Zion?
    Isn’t Zion’s king still there?”
    They make me furious with their idols, with their foreign gods.

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