Jeremiah 8:13–22

¹³I will utterly take them away, saith Jehovah: there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree; and the leaf is faded: and I will give them up to those that shall pass over them. ¹⁴Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced cities, and let us be silent there: for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah. ¹⁵Peace is looked for, and there is no good; a time of healing, and behold, terror. ¹⁶The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: the whole land trembleth at the sound of the neighing of his steeds, and they come, and devour the land, and all it contains, the city and those that dwell therein. ¹⁷For behold, I send among you serpents, vipers against which there is no charm, and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah. ¹⁸My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me! ¹⁹Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people, from a very far country: Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, with foreign vanities? ²⁰The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. ²¹—For the breach of the daughter of my people am I crushed; I go mourning; astonishment hath taken hold of me. ²²Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Why then is there no dressing applied for the healing of the daughter of my people?