Jeremiah

¹⁶The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan.The whole land trembles at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones;for they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it;the city and those who dwell therein.” ¹⁷“For, behold, I will send serpents,adders among you,which will not be charmed;and they will bite you,” says the Lord. ¹⁸Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow!My heart is faint within me. ¹⁹Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off:“Isn’t the Lord in Zion?Isn’t her King in her?”“Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images,and with foreign idols?” ²⁰“The harvest is past.The summer has ended,and we are not saved.” ²¹For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt.I mourn.Dismay has taken hold of me. ²²Is there no balm in Gilead?Is there no physician there?Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?