Jeremiah 8:18-Jeremiah 9:3 - Lament Over Judah
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?
1 Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men that I might leave my people and go from them! for they are all adulterers, a congregation of rebels.
3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies, but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth for they proceed from evil to evil, and they did not recognize me, said the LORD.