Jeremiah 8:18-9:1

Common English Bible

¹⁸ No healing,
    only grief;
        my heart is broken.^[a]
19 Listen to the weeping of my people
        all across the land:
    “Isn’t the Lord in Zion?
        Is her king no longer there?”
Why then did they anger me with their images,
    with pointless foreign gods?
²⁰ “The harvest is past,
    the summer has ended,
        yet we aren’t saved.”
²¹ Because my people are crushed,
    I am crushed;
    darkness and despair overwhelm me.

²² Is there no balm in Gilead?
    Is there no physician there?
Why then have my people
    not been restored to health?