Jeremiah 8:18-22

New International Version - UK

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

‘Why have they aroused my anger with their images,
    with their worthless foreign idols?’

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

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