11. They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. “Peace, peace,” they say, when there is no peace.
12. Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when they are punished, says the Lord.
13. “ ‘I will take away their harvest, declares the Lord. There will be no grapes on the vine. There will be no figs on the tree, and their leaves will wither. What I have given them will be taken from them. ’ ”
14. Why are we sitting here? Gather together! Let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there! For the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against him.
15. We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.
16. The snorting of the enemy’s horses is heard from Dan; at the neighing of their stallions the whole land trembles. They have come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who live there.
17. “See, I will send venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the Lord.
18. You who are my Comforter 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.