Jeremiah 8:13-22

Complete Jewish Bible

¹³ “‘I will put an end to them,’ says Adonai.
‘There are no grapes on the vine,
and no figs on the fig tree;
the leaf has withered; and what I have given them
will pass from their possession.’”

¹⁴ “Why are we sitting still? Assemble!
Let’s enter the fortified cities
and meet our doom there!
For Adonai our God has doomed us;
he has given us bitter water to drink,
because we have sinned against Adonai.
¹⁵ When we look for peace, nothing good comes;
when we seek a time of healing, instead there is terror.”

¹⁶ From Dan can be heard the snorting of his horses;
when his stallions neigh, the whole land trembles.
For they come devouring the land and all in it,
the city and those who dwell there.
¹⁷ “Yes, now I am sending snakes among you,
vipers that no one can charm,
and they will bite you,” says Adonai.

¹⁸ My grief has no cure, I am sick at heart.
¹⁹ Listen to my people’s cry of distress
out of a distant land:
“Is Adonai no longer in Tziyon?
Is her king no longer there?”

“Why do they provoke me with their idols
and their futile foreign gods?”

²⁰ “The harvest has passed, the summer is over,
and still we are not saved.”

²¹ The daughter of my people is broken,
and it’s tearing me to pieces;
everything looks dark to me,
horror seizes me.
²² Has Gil‘ad exhausted its healing resin?
Is no physician there?
If there is, then why is the daughter of my people
so slow to recover her health?