Jeremiah 8:14-22

14Why are we sitting still? 1Assemble yourselves, and let’s 2go into the fortified cities And perish there, For the Lord our God has doomed us And given us 3poisoned water to drink, Because 4we have sinned against the Lord.15We 5waited for peace, but no good came; For a time of healing, but behold, terror!16From 6Dan there is heard the snorting of his horses; At the sound of the neighing of his 7stallions The whole land quakes; For they come and 8devour the land and its fullness, The city and its inhabitants.17“For behold, I am 9sending serpents among you, Vipers for which there is 10no charm; And they will bite you,” declares the Lord.

1811My 12sorrow is beyond healing, My 13heart is faint within me!19Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a 14distant land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not within her?” “Why have they 15provoked Me with their carved images, with foreign 1617idols?”20“Harvest is past, summer is over, And we are not saved.”21I am broken over the 18brokenness of the daughter of my people. I 19mourn, dismay has taken hold of me.22Is there no 20balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? 21Why then has not the 22health of the daughter of my people 23been restored?