13. “‘I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: no grapes shall be on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.’”
14. “Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
15. We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
16. The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles; for they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those who dwell therein.”
17. “For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you,” says Yahweh.
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: “Isn’t Yahweh in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign 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 mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.
22. Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?