Jeremiah 8:19
ContextNETBible | I hear my dear people 1 crying out 2 throughout the length and breadth of the land. 3 They are crying, ‘Is the Lord no longer in Zion? Is her divine King 4 no longer there?’” The Lord answers, 5 “Why then do they provoke me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?” 6 |
XREF | De 32:16-21; Ps 135:21; Ps 146:10; Ps 149:2; Isa 1:4; Isa 12:6; Isa 13:5; Isa 33:22; Isa 39:3; Isa 52:1; Jer 4:16,17,30,31; Jer 8:5,6; Jer 14:19; Jer 31:6; Joe 2:32; Joe 3:21; Ob 1:17; Re 2:1 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “daughter of my people.” For the translation given here see 4:11 and the note on the phrase “dear people” there. 2 tn Heb “Behold the voice of the crying of the daughter of my people.” 3 tn Heb “Land of distances, i.e., of wide extent.” For parallel usage cf. Isa 33:17. 4 tn Heb “her King” but this might be misunderstood by some to refer to the Davidic ruler even with the capitalization. 5 tn The words, “The 6 sn The people’s cry and the |