17. For behold, I will send among you serpents, king snakes, against which there is no charm, and they will bite you, says the Lord.
18. My sorrow is beyond sorrow; my heart mourns within me.
19. Behold, the voice of the daughter of my people from a far away land. Is the Lord not with Zion, and is her king not within her? Then why have they provoked me to wrath by their graven images, and by their strange vanities?
20. The harvest has passed by, the summer is at an end, and we have not been saved.
21. Over the destruction of the daughter of my people, I am contrite and saddened; astonishment has taken hold of me.