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Jeremiah 8:18

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Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

Context

15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
16The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan. The whole land trembles at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell therein.”
17“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says Yahweh.
18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: “Isn’t Yahweh in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign idols?”
20“The harvest is past. The summer has ended, and we are not saved.”
21For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me.

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