1 turned away
in perpetual faithlessness?
They have held fast to deceit;
they have refused to return.
6
observe the time of their coming,
but my people do not know
the ordinance of the Lord.
8 says the Lord;
there are no grapes on the vine
nor figs on the fig tree;
even the leaves are withered,
and what I gave them has passed away from them.
14 Jer 3.25; 4.5; 9.15; 14.20; 35.11; Mt 27.34 Why do we sit still?
Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities
and perish there,
for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
and has given us poisoned water to drink
because we have sinned against the Lord.
15 Jer 14.19 We look for peace but find no good,
for a time of healing, but there is terror instead.
16 Judg 5.22; Jer 3.24; 4.15; 10.25 The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan;
at the sound of the neighing of their stallions
the whole land quakes.
They come and devour the land and all that fills it,
the city and those who live in it.
17 Num 21.6; Ps 58.4, 5 See, I am letting snakes loose among you,
adders that cannot be charmed,
and they shall bite you, says the Lord.
The Prophet Mourns for the People18My joy is gone; grief is upon me;
my heart is sick.
19 Deut 32.21; Ps 31.6; Isa 39.3; Jer 4.16; 14.19 Listen! The cry of the daughter of my people
from far and wide in the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
Is her King not in her?”
(“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images,
with their foreign idols?”)
20“The harvest is past, the summer is ended,
and we are not saved.”
21 Jer 14.17; Joel 2.6; Nah 2.10 For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken,
I mourn, and horror has seized me.
22 Gen 37.25; Jer 14.19; 30.13 Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has the health of the daughter of my people
not been restored?
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