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Jeremiah: 18 There is no cure for my grief.
        My heart breaks for what I see and hear.[a]
19     Listen, my Lord, don’t You hear the daughter of our people weeping, crying out to You from exile?
    “Is the Eternal no longer in Zion? Does her King no longer reside there?”

Eternal One: But Jeremiah, why have they provoked Me with their dark and evil practices?
        Why do they worship these handcrafted idols, these worthless gods?

Jeremiah understands that the time for Judah to repent and change her ways is past. She has had her last chance, but that doesn’t stop him from pleading with God.

20 Jeremiah: The harvest is over, summer has ended,
        and we are not saved.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:18 Meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

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.