Jeremiah 8:13–22

¹³I utterly consume them, an affirmation of Jehovah, There are no grapes in the vine, Yea, there are no figs in the fig-tree, And the leaf hath faded, And the strength they have passeth from them. ¹⁴Wherefore are we sitting still? Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced cities, And we are silent there, For Jehovah our God hath made us silent, Yea, He causeth us to drink water of gall, For we have sinned against Jehovah. ¹⁵Looking for peace—and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror. ¹⁶From Dan hath been heard the snorting of his horses, From the voice of the neighings of his mighty ones, Trembled hath all the land, And they come in and consume the land and its fulness, The city and the inhabitants in it. ¹⁷For, lo, I am sending among you serpents, Vipers that have no charmer, And they have bitten you, an affirmation of Jehovah. ¹⁸My refreshing for me is sorrow, For me my heart is sick. ¹⁹Lo, the voice of a cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off, Is Jehovah not in Zion? is her king not in her? Wherefore have they provoked Me with their graven images, With the vanities of a foreigner? ²⁰Harvest hath passed, summer hath ended, And we—we have not been saved. ²¹For a breach of the daughter of my people have I been broken, I have been black, astonishment hath seized me. ²²Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? For wherefore hath not the health of the daughter of my people gone up?

Chapter 9