Jeremiah 8:18-9:2

New Living Translation

“Oh, why have they provoked my anger with their carved idols
    and their worthless foreign gods?” says the Lord.

²⁰ “The harvest is finished,
    and the summer is gone,” the people cry,
    “yet we are not saved!”

²¹ I hurt with the hurt of my people.
    I mourn and am overcome with grief.
²² Is there no medicine in Gilead?
    Is there no physician there?
Why is there no healing
    for the wounds of my people?

9 ^[b]If only my head were a pool of water
    and my eyes a fountain of tears,
I would weep day and night
    for all my people who have been slaughtered.
^2 [c]Oh, that I could go away and forget my people
    and live in a travelers’ shack in the desert.
For they are all adulterers—
    a pack of treacherous liars.