Jeremiah 8:13-15

New Living Translation

¹³ I will surely consume them.
    There will be no more harvests of figs and grapes.
Their fruit trees will all die.
    Whatever I gave them will soon be gone.
    I, the Lord, have spoken!’

¹⁴ “Then the people will say,
    ‘Why should we wait here to die?
Come, let’s go to the fortified towns and die there.
    For the Lord our God has decreed our destruction
and has given us a cup of poison to drink
    because we sinned against the Lord.
¹⁵ We hoped for peace, but no peace came.
    We hoped for a time of healing, but found only terror.’