19 Listen to my people!They are crying for help from a faraway land.They say, “Is the Lord still in Jerusalem?Is Jerusalem’s king still there?”But God says, “Why did the people make me angry by worshiping idols?They worshiped their useless foreign idols.”
20 And the people say, “Harvest time is over.Summer has ended.And we have not been saved.”
21 My people are crushed. So I am crushed.I cry loudly, and I am afraid for them.
22 Surely there is a balm in the land of Gilead.Surely there is a doctor there.So why aren’t the hurts of my people healed?