Jeremiah 8:18-Jeremiah 9:3 - Lament Over Judah
18 Sorrow is come upon me, and heaviness vexeth my heart: 19 for lo, the voice of the crying of my people is heard from a far country: "Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not the king in her?" "Wherefore then have they grieved me," shall the LORD say, "with their images and foolish strange fashions?" 20 The harvest is gone, the Summer hath an end, and we are not helped. 21 I am sore vexed, because of the hurt of my people: I am heavy and abashed, 22 for there is no more treacle at Gilead, and there is no Physician, that can heal the hurt of my people.
1 O Who will give my head water enough, and a well of tears for mine eyes, that I may weep night and day for the slaughter of my people? 2 Would God that I had a cottage somewhere far from folk, that I might leave my people, and go from them: for they be all adulterers and a shrinking sort.
3 They bend their tongues like bows, to shoot out lies: As for the truth, they may nothing away with all in the world. For they go from one wickedness to another, and hold nothing of me, sayeth the LORD.