Jeremiah 8:18-9:3

New International Version

¹⁸ You who are my Comforter^[a] in sorrow,
    my heart is faint^(A) within me.
¹⁹ Listen to the cry of my people
    from a land far away:^(B)
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    Is her King^(C) no longer there?”

“Why have they aroused^(D) my anger with their images,
    with their worthless^(E) foreign idols?”^(F)

²⁰ “The harvest is past,
    the summer has ended,
    and we are not saved.”

²¹ Since my people are crushed,^(G) I am crushed;
    I mourn,^(H) and horror grips me.
²² Is there no balm in Gilead?^(I)
    Is there no physician^(J) there?
Why then is there no healing^(K)
    for the wound of my people?

³ “They make ready their tongue
    like a bow, to shoot lies;^(R)
it is not by truth
    that they triumph^[c] in the land.
They go from one sin to another;
    they do not acknowledge^(S) me,”
declares the Lord.