¹⁴ Why do we sit still?
    Assemble yourselves,
and let us enter the fortified cities
    and let us perish there.
For the Lord our God has doomed us
    and given us water of gall to drink,
    because we have sinned against the Lord.
¹⁵ We looked for peace,
    but no good came;
and for a time of health,
    but there was trouble!
¹⁶ The snorting of his horses
    was heard from Dan;
the whole land trembled
    at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones.
For they have come and have devoured
    the land and all that is in it,
    the city, and those who dwell in it.

¹⁷ See, I will send serpents against you,
    adders, which will not be charmed,
    and they will bite you,
    declares the Lord.