The Scriptures 1998

Jeremiah 8:11-19 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

11. “And they heal the breach of the daughter of My people slightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.

12. “Were they ashamed when they had done abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush. So they shall fall among those who fall. They shall stumble in the time of their visitation,” said יהוה.

13. “I shall snatch them away,” declares יהוה. “There are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf has faded. And what I gave them shall pass away from them.” ’ ”

14. Why are we sitting still? Gather yourselves, and let us go into the walled cities, and let us be silent there. For יהוה our Elohim has let us perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against יהוה.

15. We looked for peace, but there was no good; and for a time of healing, but see – fear!

16. The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan. All the land shook at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones. They came and devoured the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it.

17. “For look, I am sending among you serpents, adders, which have no enchanter, and they shall bite you,” declares יהוה.

18. When in grief I would seek comfort; my heart is sick within me.

19. Observe! The voice, the cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land, “Is יהוה not in Tsiyon? Is her Sovereign not in her?” “Why have they provoked Me with their carved images, and with foreign worthlessnesses?”