Jeremiah 8:18-Jeremiah 9:3 - Lament Over Judah
18 Incurable sorrow has overwhelmed me, my heart is sick within me. 19 Listen! My people cry from a distant land: "Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her king no longer there?" "Why did they provoke me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign gods?" 20 The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we haven't been delivered. 21 Because my people are crushed, I'm crushed. I mourn, and dismay overwhelms me. 22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? So why is there no healing for my people?
1 "Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, for then I would cry day and night for those of my people who have been killed. 2 Oh, that I had a lodging place for travelers in the desert, so that I could leave my people and go away from them. For all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.
3 They use their tongues like a bow. Lies rather than truth fly throughout the land. They progress from one evil to another, and they don't know me," declares the LORD.