Jeremiah 8:17-19

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁷ “For behold, I will send serpents and vipers among you, which will not be charmed. And they shall sting you,” says the LORD.

¹⁸ I would have comforted myself against sorrow, but my heart is heavy in me.

¹⁹ Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a far country, “Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, and with strange vanities?”