13. “I will utterly consume them,” says Adonai. “There will be no grapes on the vine, and no figs on the fig tree, and even the leaf will wither, and what I gave them will pass away.”
14. “Why are we sitting here? Assemble! Let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there! For Adonai Eloheinu has silenced us and given us poisoned water to drink. For we have sinned against Adonai.
15. We hoped for shalom, but it is no good, for a time of healing —and suddenly, terror!”
16. From Dan is heard the snorting of his horses. At the sound of his stallions neighing, the whole land quakes. For they come and devour the land and everything in it— the city and all who live there.
17. “For I am about to send serpents on you, vipers for which there is no charm, and they will bite you.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
18. My joy is overcome by grief, my heart is faint within me.
19. Listen, the sound of the cry of the daughter of my people —a voice from a distant land— “Is Adonai no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer in her?” “Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign idols?”
20. “Harvest is past, summer is over, yet we are not saved.”
21. “Because of the brokenness of the daughter of my people, I am brokenhearted. I mourn—desolation grips me.
22. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Then why has no healing gone up for the daughter of my people?
23. If only my head were water and my eyes a fountain of tears, then I would weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!