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17 “Look! I am sending poisonous snakes to attack you.
    These snakes cannot be charmed,
    and they will bite you,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah’s Sadness

18 God, you are my comfort when I am very sad
    and when I am afraid.
19 Listen to the sound of my people.
    They cry from a faraway land:
    “Isn’t the Lord still in Jerusalem?
    Isn’t Jerusalem’s king still there?”

But God says, “Why did the people make me angry by worshiping idols,
    useless foreign idols?”

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