17. For behold, I send among you serpents, vipers against which there is no charm, and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.
18. My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me!
19. Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people, from a very far country: Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, with foreign vanities?
20. The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21. --For the breach of the daughter of my people am I crushed; I go mourning; astonishment hath taken hold of me.
22. Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Why then is there no dressing applied for the healing of the daughter of my people?