11. They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying,“Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.
12. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?No, they were not at all ashamed.They couldn’t blush.Therefore they will fall amongst those who fall.In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says the Lord.
13. “‘I will utterly consume them, says the Lord.No grapes will be on the vine,no figs on the fig tree,and the leaf will fade.The things that I have given themwill pass away from them.’”
14. “Why do we sit still?Assemble yourselves!Let’s enter into the fortified cities,and let’s 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 healing, and behold, dismay!
16. The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan.The whole land trembles at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones;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 amongst you,which will not be charmed;and they will bite you,” says the Lord.
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 the Lord in Zion?Isn’t her King in her?”“Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images,and with foreign idols?”
20. “The harvest is past.The summer has ended,and we are not saved.”
21. For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt.I mourn.Dismay has taken hold of 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?