Jeremiah 8:18-19

8:18 Then I said,

“There is no cure for my grief!

I am sick at heart!

8:19 I hear my dear people crying out

throughout the length and breadth of the land.

They are crying, ‘Is the Lord no longer in Zion?

Is her divine King no longer there?’”

The Lord answers,

“Why then do they provoke me to anger with their images,

with their worthless foreign idols?”