14. Upon what shall we secure ourselves? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God has put us to silence and given us water of gall to drink because we have sinned against the Lord.
15. We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16. /strong> The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan; the whole earth trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those that dwell therein.
17. For, behold, I send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, said the Lord.
18. Because of my strong sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
19. Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people that comes from a far country: 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 vanities of a strange god?
20. The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21. For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am devastated; I am in darkness; astonishment has taken hold on me.
22. Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then was there no medicine for the daughter of my people?