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17 For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you," says the LORD.
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“See, I will send venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
18 My grief is beyond healing, my heart is sick within me.
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You who are my Comforter in sorrow, my heart is faint within me.
19 Hark, the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not in her?" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with their foreign idols?"
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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 is ended, and we are not saved."
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“The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved.”
21 For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.
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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 has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
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Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?
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