Jeremiah 8:15-9:1

New International Version

¹⁵ We hoped for peace^(A)
    but no good has come,
for a time of healing
    but there is only terror.^(B)
16 The snorting of the enemy’s horses^(C)
    is heard from Dan;^(D)
at the neighing of their stallions
    the whole land trembles.^(E)
They have come to devour^(F)
    the land and everything in it,
    the city and all who live there.

¹⁷ “See, I will send venomous snakes^(G) among you,
    vipers that cannot be charmed,^(H)
    and they will bite you,”
declares the Lord.

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

“Why have they aroused^(L) my anger with their images,
    with their worthless^(M) foreign idols?”^(N)

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

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