Jeremiah 8:19
Listen to my people crying out for help from a distant land, asking “Isn't the Lord present in Zion anymore? Has her King left?” Why have they made me angry, worshiping their carved images and their useless foreign idols?
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18Nothing comforts me in my suffering; I feel terrible inside.
20“The harvest is over, the summer is finished, but we're not saved,” say the people.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:17Then I will abandon them and turn away from them, so they will be destroyed, and they will experience many disasters and problems. At that time they'll say, ‘We're suffering these disasters because our God has abandoned us!’
Deuteronomy 32:21They have made me jealous by worshiping things that are not God; they have made me angry with their useless idols. So I will make them jealous using a people that aren't really a nation; I will make them angry using ignorant foreigners.
Psalms 137:1When we sat down by the rivers of Babylon we wept as we remembered Zion.
Psalms 149:2Let Israel celebrate their Creator; let the people of Zion be happy in their King.
Isaiah 12:6Shout loudly and sing for joy, you people of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel is great, and is among you.”
Isaiah 33:22For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king. He is the one 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 →