Jeremiah 8:18–9:1

Jeremiah Weeps for Sinful Judah

¹⁸My grief is beyond healing;

my heart is broken.

¹⁹Listen to the weeping of my people;

it can be heard all across the land.

“Has the Lord abandoned Jerusalem?” the people ask.

“Is her King no longer there?”

“Oh, why have they provoked my anger with their carved idols

and their worthless foreign gods?” says the Lord.

²⁰“The harvest is finished,

and the summer is gone,” the people cry,

“yet we are not saved!”

²¹I hurt with the hurt of my people.

I mourn and am overcome with grief.

²²Is there no medicine in Gilead?

Is there no physician there?

Why is there no healing

for the wounds of my people?

Chapter 9

¹ If only my head were a pool of water

and my eyes a fountain of tears,

I would weep day and night

for all my people who have been slaughtered.