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?”
20. “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we have not been saved!”
21. For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been broken. I have grown sad; astonishment has seized me.
22. Is there no balm in Gil‛aḏ, is there no healer there? Why has the healing of the daughter of my people not come?