17. For, behold, I will send serpents, basilisks, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
18. Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
19. Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: Is not the Lord in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
20. The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21. For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
22. Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?