Jeremiah 8:14-20 - The Nation Longs For Yahweh's Help
14 For what are we sitting? gather ye together and we will go into the fortified cities, and we shall be silent there: for Jehovah our God caused us to cease, and he will give us to drink the water of poison, for we sinned against Jehovah. 15 Hoping for peace, and no good; for a time of healing, and behold, terror.
16 From Dan was heard the snorting of his horses; from the voice of the neighings of his strong ones all the land trembled: and they will come and cut up the land, and its fulness; the city and those dwelling in it 17 For behold me sending serpents, vipers among you, which to them no hissing, and they bit you, says Jehovah.
18 Because I afflicted not sorrow upon myself, my heart was sick upon me. 19 Behold the voice of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from the land of those being far off: is not Jehovah in Zion? or her king not in her? wherefore did they irritate me with their carved images, with strange vanities? 20 The harvest passed by, the summer was completed, and we were not saved.