Jeremiah 8:14-22

Apr 25

Written By Admin

God’s People Unrepentant

14 Why are we just sitting here?

Gather together; let’s enter the fortified cities

and perish there,[fn]

for the LORD our God has destroyed[fn] us.

He has given us poisoned water to drink,

because we have sinned against the LORD.

15 We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good;

for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

16 From Dan, the snorting of horses is heard.

At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds,

the whole land quakes.

They come to devour the land and everything in it,

the city and all its residents.

17 Indeed, I am about to send snakes among you,

poisonous vipers that cannot be charmed.

They will bite you.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

18 My joy has flown away;

grief has settled on me.

My heart is sick.

19 Listen — the cry of my dear people

from a faraway land,

“Is the LORD no longer in Zion,

her King not within her? ”

Why have they angered me

with their carved images,

with their worthless foreign idols?

20 Harvest has passed, summer has ended,

but we have not been saved.

21 I am broken by the brokenness

of my dear people.

I mourn; horror has taken hold of me.

22 Is there no balm in Gilead?

Is there no physician there?

So why has the healing of my dear people

not come about?