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Jeremiah 8:21

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

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  1. Jeremiah 8:19

    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?

  2. Jeremiah 8:20

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

  3. Jeremiah 8:22

    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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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.