Jeremiah 8:18-Jeremiah 9:3 - Lament Over Judah
18 Because I afflicted not sorrow upon myself, my heart was sick upon me. 19 Behold the voice of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from the land of those being far off: is not Jehovah in Zion? or her king not in her? wherefore did they irritate me with their carved images, with strange vanities? 20 The harvest passed by, the summer was completed, and we were not saved. 21 For the breaking of the daughter of my people was I broken; I was darkened; astonishment took hold of me. 22 Is there no balsam in Gilead, or healing there? for wherefore did not the health of the daughter of my people go up?
1 Who will give my head waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears? and I will weep day and night for the wounded of the daughter of my people. 2 Who will give me in the desert a lodging-place of travelers? and I will leave my people and go from them, for they all commit adultery; an assembly of those acting faithlessly.
3 And they will bend their tongue, their bow, a lie: and they were not strong for faithfulness upon the land; for from evil to evil they went forth, and they knew me not, says Jehovah.