¹³Gathering I will gather them together, saith the Lord, there is no grape on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig tree, the leaf is fallen: and I have given them the things that are passed away.

¹⁴Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced city, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and hath given us water of gall to drink: for we have sinned against the Lord.

¹⁵We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and behold fear.

¹⁶The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan, all the land was moved at the sound of the neighing of his warriors: and they came and devoured the land, and all that was in it: the city and its inhabitants.

¹⁷For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

¹⁸My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me.

¹⁹Behold the voice of the daughter of my people from a far country: Is not the Lord in Sion, or is not her king in her? why then have they provoked me to wrath with their idols, and strange vanities?

²⁰The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

²¹For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.

²²Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?

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