Jeremiah 8:13-15

Good News Translation

¹³ “I wanted to gather my people, as a farmer gathers a harvest; but they are like a vine with no grapes, like a fig tree with no figs; even the leaves have withered. Therefore, I have allowed outsiders to take over the land.”^[a]

¹⁴ “Why are we sitting still?” God's people ask. “Come on, we will run to the fortified cities and die there. The Lord our God has condemned us to die; he has given us poison to drink, because we have sinned against him. ¹⁵ We hoped for peace and a time of healing, but it was no use; terror came instead.