Jeremiah 8:19
Lo! the voice of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from a land far away, Is, Yahweh, not in Zion? Is, her King, not within her? Why, have they provoked me with their carved images, with their foreign vanities?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
18When I would have cheered myself against sorrow, Against me, mine own heart sickened:—
20The harvest is passed, The fruit-gathering, is ended; And we are not saved!
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:17Then will mine anger kindle upon them in that day, and I will forsake them and will hide my face from them and they shall be consumed, and many calamities and misfortunes shall find them out,—and they will say, in that day, Is it not because my God is not in my midst, that these calamities have found me out?
Deuteronomy 32:21They have moved me to jealousy with a No-GOD, They have angered me with their vanities: I, therefore, will move them to jealousy with a No-people, With an impious nation, will I anger them.
Psalms 137:1By the rivers of Babylon, there, we sat down, yea we wept—when we remembered Zion:
Psalms 149:2Let Israel rejoice in him that made him, Let the sons of Zion exult in their king;
Isaiah 12:6Make shrill thy voice and sing out thou inhabitress of Zion,—That great in the midst of thee, is the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 33:22For, Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh, is our lawgiver,—Yahweh, 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 →