Jeremiah 8:18–9:1

¹⁸¹My ^asorrow is beyond healing,

My ^bheart is faint within me!

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

“Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not within her?”

“Why have they ^bprovoked Me 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, dismay 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 ²been restored?

Chapter 9

A Lament over Zion

^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!