Jeremiah 8:19
Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
20The 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 moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish 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 him that made him: 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 →