Jeremiah 8:14-20 - The Nation Longs For Yahweh's Help
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Gather together; let us enter the fortified cities
and perish there,
for the Lord our God has destroyed
He has given us poisoned water to drink,
because we have sinned against the Lord.
for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
16
At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds,
the whole land quakes.
They come to devour the land and everything in it,
the city and all its residents.
poisonous vipers
They will bite you.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
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grief has settled on me.
My heart is sick.
from a far away land,
“Is the Lord no longer in Zion,
her King not within her?”
Why have they provoked me to anger
with their carved images,
with their worthless foreign idols?
but we have not been saved.