Jeremiah 8:17

“Why do we sit still?

Assemble yourselves!

Let’s enter into the fortified cities,

and let’s be silent there;

for the LORD our God has put us to silence,

and given us poisoned water to drink,

because we have sinned against the LORD.

We looked for peace, but no good came;

and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

The 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.”

Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow!

My heart is faint within me.

Behold, 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?”

“The harvest is past.

The summer has ended,

and we are not saved.”