of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those who dwell therein. 008:017 For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh. 008:018 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me. 008:019 Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities? 008:020 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. 008:021 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me. 008:022 Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered? 009:001 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 009:002 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 009:003 They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh. 009:004 Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. 009:005 They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity. 009:006 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh. 009:007 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people? 009:008 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him. 009:009 Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 009:010 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone. 009:011 I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.