Jeremiah 8:17-19
Good News Translation
17 “Watch out!” the Lord says, “I am sending snakes among you, poisonous snakes that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you.”
Jeremiah's Sorrow for His People
18 My sorrow cannot be healed;[a]
I am sick at heart.
19 Listen! Throughout the land
I hear my people crying out,
“Is the Lord no longer in Zion?
Is Zion's king no longer there?”
The Lord, their king, replies,
“Why have you made me angry by worshiping your idols
and by bowing down to your useless foreign gods?”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 8:18 Probable text My sorrow … healed; Hebrew unclear.
Jeremiah 8:17-19
New International Version
17 “See, I will send venomous snakes(A) among you,
vipers that cannot be charmed,(B)
and they will bite you,”
declares the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 8:18 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
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