Jeremiah 8:17-19

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁷ See, I am letting snakes loose among you,
    adders that cannot be charmed,
    and they shall bite you,
says the Lord.

¹⁸ My joy is gone, grief is upon me,
    my heart is sick.
¹⁹ Hark, the cry of my poor people
    from far and wide in the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    Is her King not in her?”
(“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images,
    with their foreign idols?”)