Jeremiah 8:18–9:2

Sorrow over Zion

¹⁸¹My ^asorrow is beyond healing;

My ^bheart is faint within me!

¹⁹Behold, the sound! The cry of the daughter of my people from a ^adistant land:

“Is Yahweh not in Zion? Is her King not within her?”

“Why have they ^bprovoked Me to anger with their graven images, with foreign ^1cidols?”

²⁰“Harvest is past, summer is ended,

And we are not saved.”

²¹For the ^abrokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken;

I ^bmourn, desolation has taken hold of me.

²²Is there no ^abalm in Gilead?

Is there no physician there?

^bWhy then has not the ¹health of the daughter of my people gone up?

CHAPTER 9

^11aOh that my head were waters

And my eyes a fountain of tears,

That I might weep day and night

For the slain of the ^bdaughter of my people!

^21aOh that I had in the desert

A travelers’ lodging place,

That I might leave my people

And go from them!

For all of them are ^badulterers,

A solemn assembly of ^ctreacherous men.