Jeremiah 8:21-Jeremiah 9:3 - Yahweh's Lament

²¹ For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken;
I mourn, dismay has taken hold of me.
²² Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?

¹ Oh that my head were waters
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter of my people!
² Oh that I had in the desert
A wayfarers’ lodging place;
That I might leave my people
And go from them!
For all of them are adulterers,
An assembly of treacherous men.

³ “They bend their tongue like their bow;
Lies and not truth prevail in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know Me,” declares the Lord.