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

¹⁴ Why are, well sitting still? Gather yourselves together and let us enter the defenced cities And let us be silent there, - For, Yahweh our God, hath put us to silence And made us drink poisoned water, Because we have sinned against Yahweh. ¹⁵ A waiting For prosperity, but no welfare, - For a time of healing, but lo! terror.

¹⁶ From Dan, was heard the snorting of his horses At the sound of the neighing of his chargers, the whole land trembled, - Yea they came in and did sat up The land and the fulness thereof, The city, and them who were dwelling therein. ¹⁷ For behold me! sending among you serpents - vipers which there is no charming, - And they shall fatally bite you declareth Yahweh.

¹⁸ When I would have cheered myself against sorrow, Against me, mine own heart sickened: - ¹⁹ Lo! the voice of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from a land far away, Is, Yahweh, not in Zion? Is, her King, not within her? Why, have they provoked me with their carved images, with their foreign vanities? ²⁰ The harvest is passed, The fruit-gathering, is ended; And we are not saved!