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)