Jeremiah 8:18-Jeremiah 9:3 - Lament Over Judah
18 My sorrow is beyond healing, my heart is faint within me! 19 Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land: Is Jehovah not in Zion? Is her King not within her? Why have they provoked me with their graven images, with foreign idols? 20 Harvest is past, summer is ended, and we are not saved. 21 For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken. I mourn and dismay has taken hold of me. 22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician (healer) there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
1 Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears. Then I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2 I wish I had a dwelling in the desert. I would abandon my people and go away from them. They are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3 They bend their tongue like their bow. Lies and not truth prevail in the land. They move from evil to evil. They do not know me, says Jehovah.