Jeremiah 8:18-Jeremiah 9:3 - Lament Over Judah
18 "My comfort [is gone] from me, sorrow [is] on me, my heart [is] sick. 19 Look, the sound of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from a distant land, 'Is Yahweh not in Zion? Is her king not in her?' Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with idols of a foreign land?" 20 [The] harvest has passed, [the] summer has come to an end, and we have not received help. 21 "Because of the wound of the daughter of my people I am broken down, I mourn, horror has seized me. 22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no healer there? Why, then, has the healing of the daughter of my people not been restored?
1 {Oh that my head were waters}, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night, [for] the slain of the daughter of my people. 2 {Oh that I had} in the desert a place of overnight lodging for travelers, that I may leave my people and go from them, for all of them [are] adulterers, a band of traitors.
3 And they bend their tongue [like] their bow, [for] falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forth from evil to evil, and they do not know me," {declares} Yahweh.