They treat the wound of my people
as if it were nothing:
“All is well, all is well,” they insist,
when in fact nothing is well.
They should be ashamed
of their detestable practices,
but they have no shame;
they don’t even blush!
Therefore, they will fall among the fallen
and stumble when disaster arrives,
declares the Lord.
I will put an end to them,
declares the Lord;
there are no grapes on the vine,
no figs on the tree,
only withered leaves.
They have squandered what I have given them!
A lament for God’s people
Why are we sitting here?
Come, let’s go to the fortified towns
and meet our doom there.
The Lord our God has doomed us
by giving us poisoned water to drink,
because we have sinned against the Lord!
longed for relief,
but received none;
for a time of healing,
but found only terror.
The snorting of their horses can be heard as far as Dan;
the neighing of their stallions makes the whole land tremble.
They come to devour the land and everything in it,
towns and people alike.
See, I’m sending serpents against you,
vipers that you can’t charm,
and they will bite you,
declares the Lord.
No healing,
only grief;
my heart is broken.
Listen to the weeping of my people
all across the land:
“Isn’t the Lord in Zion?
Is her king no longer there?”
Why then did they anger me with their images,
with pointless foreign gods?
“The harvest is past,
the summer has ended,
yet we aren’t saved.”
Because my people are crushed,
I am crushed;
darkness and despair overwhelm me.
Jeremiah 8:11-21 Common English Bible
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