Jeremiah 8:19
Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people for feare of them of a farre countrey, Is not the Lord in Zion? is not her king in her? Why haue they prouoked mee to anger with their grauen images, and with the vanities of a strange god?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
18I would haue comforted my selfe against sorowe, but mine heart is heauie in me.
20The haruest is past, the sommer is ended, and we are not holpen.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:17Wherefore my wrath will waxe hote against them at that day, and I will forsake them, and will hide my face from them: then they shalbe consumed, and many aduersities and tribulations shall come vpon them: so then they will say, Are not these troubles come vpon me, because God is not with me?
Deuteronomy 32:21They haue moued me to ielousie with that which is not God: they haue prouoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will moue them to ielousie with those which are no people: I wil prouoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Psalms 137:1By the riuers of Babel we sate, and there wee wept, when we remembred Zion.
Psalms 149:2Let Israel reioyce in him that made him, and let ye children of Zion reioyce in their King.
Isaiah 12:6Cry out, and shoute, O inhabitant of Zion: for great is ye holy one of Israel in the middes of thee.
Isaiah 33:22For the Lord is our Iudge, the Lord is our lawe giuer: the Lord is our King, he will saue vs.
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 →