Jeremiah 8:14-20 - The Nation Longs For Yahweh's Help

¹⁴ Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord. ¹⁵ We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.

¹⁶ The loud breathing of the horses comes to our ears from Dan: at the sound of the outcry of his war-horses, all the land is shaking with fear; for they have come, and have made a meal of the land and everything in it; the town and the people living in it. ¹⁷ See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.

¹⁸ Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble. ¹⁹ The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods? ²⁰ The grain-cutting is past, the summer is ended, and no salvation has come to us.