Jeremiah 8:19
Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
18My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.
20“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:17On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
Deuteronomy 32:21They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
Psalms 137:1By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
Psalms 149:2Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.
Isaiah 12:6Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
Isaiah 33:22For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 8:14-22
Destruction Threatened for Sin; Despair of Sinners in Trouble; The Prophet's Lamentation. ( b. c. 606.) 13 I will surely consume them, saith the Lord : there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have… Read the whole commentary →