Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"I would comfort myself in sorrow"
Text: Jeremiah 8:18
A PARADOX OF COMFORT
Once again, Jeremiah writes to share a personal response. He sought comfort as he grappled with thoughts of the imminent invasion of the Babylonians.
“I would comfort myself in sorrow;
My heart is faint in me.
Listen! The voice,
The cry of the daughter of my people
From a far country:
‘Is not the LORD in Zion?
Is not her King in her?’
‘Why have they provoked Me to anger
With their carved images—
With foreign idols?'”
Jeremiah 8:18-19