Jeremiah 8:17-19

Common English Bible

¹⁷ See, I’m sending serpents against you,
    vipers that you can’t charm,
    and they will bite you,
        declares the Lord.
¹⁸ No healing,
    only grief;
        my heart is broken.^[a]
19 Listen to the weeping of my people
        all across the land:
    “Isn’t the Lord in Zion?
        Is her king no longer there?”
Why then did they anger me with their images,
    with pointless foreign gods?