13. When gathering, I will gather them together, says the Lord. There are no grapes on the vine, and there are no figs on the fig tree. The leaves have fallen. And I have given them the things that have passed away."
14. "Why are we sitting still? Assemble, and let us enter the fortified city, and let us remain silent there. For the Lord our God has brought us to silence, and he has given us the water of gall as a drink. For we have sinned against the Lord.
15. We expected peace, but there was nothing good. We expected a time of health, and behold, dread."
16. "From Dan, the snorting of his horses was heard; the entire land was shaken by the voice of the neighing of his fighters. And they arrived and devoured the land and its plenitude, the city and its inhabitants.
17. For behold, I will send among you serpents, king snakes, against which there is no charm, and they will bite you, says the Lord.
18. My sorrow is beyond sorrow; my heart mourns within me.
19. Behold, the voice of the daughter of my people from a far away land. Is the Lord not with Zion, and is her king not within her? Then why have they provoked me to wrath by their graven images, and by their strange vanities?
20. The harvest has passed by, the summer is at an end, and we have not been saved.
21. Over the destruction of the daughter of my people, I am contrite and saddened; astonishment has taken hold of me.
22. Is there no balm in Gilead? Or is there no physician there? Then why has the wound of the daughter of my people not been closed?"