Jeremiah 8:19
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far off: 'Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her?' — 'Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, and with strange vanities?' —
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
18Though I would take comfort against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.
20'The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.'
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:17Then My anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come upon them; so that they will say in that day: Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?
Deuteronomy 32:21They have roused Me to jealousy with a no-god; they have provoked Me with their vanities; and I will rouse them to jealousy with a no-people; I will provoke them with a vile nation.
Psalms 137:1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Psalms 149:2Let Israel rejoice in his Maker; let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
Isaiah 12:6Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.'
Isaiah 33:22For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our Lawgiver, the LORD is our King; He 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 →