19 Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a (A)distant land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not within her?”
“Why have they (B)provoked Me with their carved images, with foreign [a](C)idols?”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:19 Lit futilities

19 Listen to the cry of my people
    from a land far away:(A)
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    Is her King(B) no longer there?”

“Why have they aroused(C) my anger with their images,
    with their worthless(D) foreign idols?”(E)

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17 The Lord of armies, who (A)planted you, has (B)pronounced evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, which they have [a]done to provoke Me by [b](C)offering sacrifices to Baal.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 11:17 Or done for themselves
  2. Jeremiah 11:17 Or burning incense

17 The Lord Almighty, who planted(A) you, has decreed disaster(B) for you, because the people of both Israel and Judah have done evil and aroused(C) my anger by burning incense to Baal.(D)

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Yet you have not listened to Me,” declares the Lord, “in order to (A)provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

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“But you did not listen to me,” declares the Lord, “and you have aroused(A) my anger with what your hands have made,(B) and you have brought harm(C) to yourselves.”

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