TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
CHICAGO

 

 

​Jeremiah 8:1-18-9:1

 

​​18 You who are my Comforter[1] in sorrow,
   my heart is faint within me.
19 Listen to the cry of my people
   from a land far away:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
   Is her King no longer there?”

“Why have they aroused my anger with their images,
   with their worthless foreign idols?”

20 “The harvest is past,
   the summer has ended,
   and we are not saved.”

21 Since my people are crushed, I am crushed;
   I mourn, and horror grips me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead?
   Is there no physician there?
Why then is there no healing
   for the wound of my people?

9 [2]1 Oh, that my head were a spring of water
   and my eyes a fountain of tears!
I would weep day and night
   for the slain of my people.

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Footnotes

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1. Jeremiah 8:18 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

2. Jeremiah 9:1 In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-26 is numbered 9:1-25.