17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the Lord in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?

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

21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

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17 “See, I will send venomous snakes(A) among you,
    vipers that cannot be charmed,(B)
    and they will bite you,”
declares the Lord.

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

“Why have they aroused(F) my anger with their images,
    with their worthless(G) foreign idols?”(H)

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

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

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Footnotes

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

12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

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Unity and Diversity in the Body

12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body,(A) so it is with Christ.(B) 13 For we were all baptized(C) by[a] one Spirit(D) so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free(E)—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 12:13 Or with; or in

26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

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26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

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