8:14. Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced city, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and hath given us water of gall to drink: for we have sinned against the Lord. 8:15. We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and behold fear. 8:16. The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan, all the land was moved at the sound of the neighing of his warriors: and they came and devoured the land, and all that was in it: the city and its inhabitants. 8:17. For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord. 8:18. My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me. 8:19. Behold the voice of the daughter of my people from a far country: Is not the Lord in Sion, or is not her king in her? why then have they provoked me to wrath with their idols, and strange vanities? 8:20. The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. 8:21. For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me. 8:22. Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed? Jeremias Chapter 9 The prophet laments the miseries of his people: and their sins, which are the cause of them. He exhorts them to repentance. 9:1. Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people. 9:2. Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors. 9:3. And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord. 9:4. Let every man take heed of his neighbour, and let him not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully. 9:5. And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity. 9:6. Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: through deceit they have refused to know me, saith the Lord. 9:7. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will melt, and try them: for what else shall I do before the daughter of my people? 9:8. Their tongue is a piercing arrow, it hath spoken deceit: with his mouth one speaketh peace with his friend, and secretly he lieth in wait for him. 9:9. Shall I not visit them for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not my soul be revenged on such a nation?