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Verse	Translation	Text
Jer 8:14	Strong Concordance	Why do we sit still [03427]? assemble [0622] yourselves, and let us enter [0935] into the defenced [04013] cities [05892], and let us be silent [01826] there: for the LORD [03068] our God [0430] hath put us to silence [01826], and given us water [04325] of gall [07219] to drink [08248], because we have sinned [02398] against the LORD [03068].
	King James	Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
assemble--for defense. let us be silent--not assault the enemy, but merely defend ourselves in quiet, until the storm blow over. put us to silence--brought us to that state that we can no longer resist the foe; implying silent despair. water of gall--literally, "water of the poisonous plant," perhaps the poppy (Jer 9:15; Jer 23:15).

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

assemble--for defense.

let us be silent--not assault the enemy, but merely defend ourselves in quiet, until the storm blow over.

put us to silence--brought us to that state that we can no longer resist the foe; implying silent despair.

water of gall--literally, "water of the poisonous plant," perhaps the poppy (Jer 9:15; Jer 23:15).

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
The people rouse one another to exertion. "Why," they ask, "do we remain here to be overwhelmed?" They are ready now to follow the command given (see the marginal reference), but with the conviction that all hope is over. Let us be silent there - Rather, let us perish there, literally "be put to silence." Water of gall - i. e., poison. The word rendered "gall" was probably the belladonna, or night-shade, to the "berries" of which the grapes of Israel were compared.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
The horrors of the approaching visitation. - Jer 8:14. "Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities, and perish there; for Jahveh our God hath decreed our ruin, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jahveh. Jer 8:15. We looked for safety, and there is no good; for a time of healing, and behold terrors. Jer 8:16. From Dan is heard the snorting of his horses; at the loud neighing of his steeds the whole earth trembles: they come, and devour the land and its fulness, the city and those that dwell therein. Jer 8:17. For, behold, I send among you serpents, vipers, of which there is no charming, which shall sting you, saith Jahve. Jer 8:18. Oh my comfort in sorrow, in me my heart grows too sock. Jer 8:19. Behold, loud sounds the cry of the daughter from out of a far country: 'Is Jahveh not in Zion, nor her King in her?' Why provoked they me with their images, with vanities of a foreign land? Jer 8:20. Past is the harvest, ended is the fruit-gathering, and we are not saved. Jer 8:21. For the breaking of the daughter of my people am I broken, am in mourning; horror hath taken hold on me. Jer 8:22. Is there no balm in Gilead, or no physician there? why then is no plaister laid upon the daughter of my people? V. 23. Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears! then would I weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people." In spirit the prophet sees the enemy forcing his way into the country, and the inhabitants fleeing into the fortified cities. This he represents to his hearers with graphic and dramatic effect. In Jer 8:14 the citizens of Judah are made to speak, calling on one another to flee and give up hope of being saved. "Why do we sit still?" i.e., remain calmly where we are? We will withdraw into the strong cities (cf. Jer 4:5), and perish there by famine and disease (נדּמה for נדּמּה, imperf. Niph., from דּמם: cf. Gesen. 67, 5, Rem. 11; in Niph. be destroyed, perish). The fortresses cannot save them from ruin, since they will be besieged and taken by the enemy. For our sin against Him, God has decreed our ruin. The Hiph. from דמם, prop. put to silence, bring to ruin, here with the force of a decree. מי ראשׁ, bitter waters; ראשׁ or רושׁ, Deu 32:32, is a plant with a very bitter taste, and so, since bitterness and poison were to the Jews closely connected, a poisonous plant; see on Deu 29:17. So they call the bitter suffering from the ruin at hand which they must undergo. Cf. the similar figure of the cup of the anger of Jahveh, Jer 25:15. Jer 8:15 Instead of peace and safety hoped for, there is calamity and terror. The infin. abs. קוּה is used emphatically for the imperf.: We looked for safety, and no good has come to us: for healing, sc. of our injuries, and instead comes terror, by reason of the appearance of the foe in the land. This hope has been awakened and cherished in the people by false prophets (see on Jer 4:10), and now, to their sore suffering, they must feel the contrary of it. The same idea is repeated in Jer 14:19. מרפּה is a mis-spelling of מרפּא, Jer 14:19, etc. Jer 8:16 From the northern borders of Canaan (from Dan; see on Jer 4:15) is already heard the dreadful tumult of the advancing enemy, the snorting of his horses. The suffix in סוּסיו refers to the enemy, whose invasion is threatened in Jer 6:22, and is here presumed as known. אבּיריו, his strong ones, here, as in Jer 47:3; Jer 50:11, a poetical name for strong horses, stallions; elsewhere for strong animals, e.g., Psa 22:13; Psa 50:13. The whole earth, not the whole land. With "devour the land," cf. Jer 5:17. עיר and ארץ have an indefinite comprehensive force; town and country on which the enemy is marching. Jer 8:17 The terribleness of these enemies is heightened by a new figure. They are compared to snakes of the most venomous description, which cannot be made innocuous by any charming, whose sting is fatal. "Vipers" is in apposition to "serpents;" serpents, namely basilisks. צפעני is, acc. to Aq. and Vulg. on Isa 11:8, serpens regulus, the basilisk, a small and very venomous species of viper, of which there is no charming. Cf. for the figure, Cant. 10:11; and fore the enemies' cruelty thereby expressed, cf. Jer 6:23; Isa 13:18. Jer 8:18-22 The hopeless ruin of his people cuts the prophet to the very heart. In Jer 8:18 -23 his sore oppressed heart finds itself vent in bitter lamentations. Oh my comfort in sorrow! is the cry of sore affliction. This may be seen from the second half of the verse, the sense of which is clear: sick (faint) is my heart upon me. עלי shows that the sickness of heart is a sore burden on him, crushes him down; cf. Ew. 217, i. "My comfort" is accordingly vocative: Oh my comfort concerning the sorrow! Usually מי יתּן is supplied: Oh that I had, that there were for me comfort! The sense suits, but the ellipse is without parallel. It is simpler to take the words as an exclamation: the special force of it, that he knows not when to seek comfort, may be gathered from the context. For other far-fetched explanations, see in Ros. ad h. l. The grief which cuts so deeply into his heart that he sighs for relief, is caused by his already hearing in spirit the mourning cry of his people as they go away into captivity. Jer 8:19-20 From a far country he hears the people complain: Is Jahveh not in Zion? is He no longer the King of His people there? The suffix in מלכּהּ refers to "daughter of my people," and the King is Jahveh; cf. Isa 33:22. They ask whether Jahveh is no longer King in Zion, that He may release His people from captivity and bring them back to Zion. To this the voice of God replies with the counter-question: Why have they provoked me with their idolatry, sc. so that I had to give them over into the power of the heathen for punishment? "Images" is expounded by the apposition: vanities (no-gods; for הבל, see on Jer 2:5) of a foreign land. Because they have chosen the empty idols from abroad (Isa 14:22) as their gods, Jahveh, the almighty God of Zion, has cast them out into a far country amidst strange people. The people goes on to complain in Jer 8:20 : Past is the harvest...and we are not saved. As Schnur. remarked, these words have something of the proverb about them. As a country-man, hoping for a good harvest, falls into despair as to his chances, so the people have been in vain looking for its rescue and deliverance. The events, or combinations of events, to which it looked for its rescue are gone by without bringing any such result. Many ancient commentators, following Rashi, have given too special a significance to this verse in applying it to the assistance expected from Egypt in the time of Jehoiakim or Zedekiah. Hitz. is yet more mistaken when he takes the saying to refer to an unproductive harvest. From Jer 8:19 we see that the words are spoken by the people while it pines in exile, which sets its hopes of being saved not in the productiveness of the harvest, but in a happy turn of the political situation. Jer 8:21-22 The hopeless case of the people and kingdom moves the seer so deeply, that he bursts forth with the cry: For the breaking of my people I am broken (the Hoph. השׁבּרתּי, of the breaking of the heart, only here; in this sig. usu. the Niph., e.g., Jer 38:7. Horror hath taken hold on me, is stronger than: Anguish hath taken hold on me, Jer 6:24, Mic 4:9. Help is nowhere to be found. This thought is in Jer 8:22 clothed in the question: Is there no balm in Gilead, or no physician there? "There" points back to Gilead. Graf's remark, that "it is not known that the physicians were got from that quarter," shows nothing more than that its author has mistaken the figurative force of the words. צרי, balsam, is mentioned in Gen 37:25 as an article of commerce carried by Midianite merchants to Egypt (cf. Eze 27:17), but is hardly the real balsam from Mecca (amyris opobalsamum), which during the Roman sovereignty was grown under culture in the gardens of Jericho, and which only succeeds in a climate little short of tropical. It was more likely the resina of the ancients, a gum procured from the terebinth or mastic tree (lentiscus, σχῖνος), which, acc. to Plin. h. nat. xxiv. 22, was held in esteem as a medicament for wounds (resolvitur resina ad vulnerum usus et malagmata oleo). Acc. to our passage and Jer 46:11, cf. Gen 37:25, it was procured chiefly from Gilead; cf. Movers, Phniz. ii. 3, S. 220ff., and the remarks on Gen 37:25. To these questions a negative answer is given. From this we explain the introduction of a further question with כּי: if there were balm in Gilead, and a physician there, then a plaister would have been laid on the daughter of my people, which is not the case. As to עלתה , lit., a plaister comes upon, see on Jer 30:17.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

The horrors of the approaching visitation. - Jer 8:14. "Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities, and perish there; for Jahveh our God hath decreed our ruin, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jahveh. Jer 8:15. We looked for safety, and there is no good; for a time of healing, and behold terrors. Jer 8:16. From Dan is heard the snorting of his horses; at the loud neighing of his steeds the whole earth trembles: they come, and devour the land and its fulness, the city and those that dwell therein. Jer 8:17. For, behold, I send among you serpents, vipers, of which there is no charming, which shall sting you, saith Jahve. Jer 8:18. Oh my comfort in sorrow, in me my heart grows too sock. Jer 8:19. Behold, loud sounds the cry of the daughter from out of a far country: 'Is Jahveh not in Zion, nor her King in her?' Why provoked they me with their images, with vanities of a foreign land? Jer 8:20. Past is the harvest, ended is the fruit-gathering, and we are not saved. Jer 8:21. For the breaking of the daughter of my people am I broken, am in mourning; horror hath taken hold on me. Jer 8:22. Is there no balm in Gilead, or no physician there? why then is no plaister laid upon the daughter of my people? V. 23. Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears! then would I weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people."

In spirit the prophet sees the enemy forcing his way into the country, and the inhabitants fleeing into the fortified cities. This he represents to his hearers with graphic and dramatic effect. In Jer 8:14 the citizens of Judah are made to speak, calling on one another to flee and give up hope of being saved. "Why do we sit still?" i.e., remain calmly where we are? We will withdraw into the strong cities (cf. Jer 4:5), and perish there by famine and disease (נדּמה for נדּמּה, imperf. Niph., from דּמם: cf. Gesen. 67, 5, Rem. 11; in Niph. be destroyed, perish). The fortresses cannot save them from ruin, since they will be besieged and taken by the enemy. For our sin against Him, God has decreed our ruin. The Hiph. from דמם, prop. put to silence, bring to ruin, here with the force of a decree. מי ראשׁ, bitter waters; ראשׁ or רושׁ, Deu 32:32, is a plant with a very bitter taste, and so, since bitterness and poison were to the Jews closely connected, a poisonous plant; see on Deu 29:17. So they call the bitter suffering from the ruin at hand which they must undergo. Cf. the similar figure of the cup of the anger of Jahveh, Jer 25:15.

Jer 8:15

Instead of peace and safety hoped for, there is calamity and terror. The infin. abs. קוּה is used emphatically for the imperf.: We looked for safety, and no good has come to us: for healing, sc. of our injuries, and instead comes terror, by reason of the appearance of the foe in the land. This hope has been awakened and cherished in the people by false prophets (see on Jer 4:10), and now, to their sore suffering, they must feel the contrary of it. The same idea is repeated in Jer 14:19. מרפּה is a mis-spelling of מרפּא, Jer 14:19, etc.

Jer 8:16

From the northern borders of Canaan (from Dan; see on Jer 4:15) is already heard the dreadful tumult of the advancing enemy, the snorting of his horses. The suffix in סוּסיו refers to the enemy, whose invasion is threatened in Jer 6:22, and is here presumed as known. אבּיריו, his strong ones, here, as in Jer 47:3; Jer 50:11, a poetical name for strong horses, stallions; elsewhere for strong animals, e.g., Psa 22:13; Psa 50:13. The whole earth, not the whole land. With "devour the land," cf. Jer 5:17. עיר and ארץ have an indefinite comprehensive force; town and country on which the enemy is marching.

Jer 8:17

The terribleness of these enemies is heightened by a new figure. They are compared to snakes of the most venomous description, which cannot be made innocuous by any charming, whose sting is fatal. "Vipers" is in apposition to "serpents;" serpents, namely basilisks. צפעני is, acc. to Aq. and Vulg. on Isa 11:8, serpens regulus, the basilisk, a small and very venomous species of viper, of which there is no charming. Cf. for the figure, Cant. 10:11; and fore the enemies' cruelty thereby expressed, cf. Jer 6:23; Isa 13:18.

Jer 8:18-22

The hopeless ruin of his people cuts the prophet to the very heart. In Jer 8:18 -23 his sore oppressed heart finds itself vent in bitter lamentations. Oh my comfort in sorrow! is the cry of sore affliction. This may be seen from the second half of the verse, the sense of which is clear: sick (faint) is my heart upon me. עלי shows that the sickness of heart is a sore burden on him, crushes him down; cf. Ew. 217, i. "My comfort" is accordingly vocative: Oh my comfort concerning the sorrow! Usually מי יתּן is supplied: Oh that I had, that there were for me comfort! The sense suits, but the ellipse is without parallel. It is simpler to take the words as an exclamation: the special force of it, that he knows not when to seek comfort, may be gathered from the context. For other far-fetched explanations, see in Ros. ad h. l. The grief which cuts so deeply into his heart that he sighs for relief, is caused by his already hearing in spirit the mourning cry of his people as they go away into captivity.

Jer 8:19-20

From a far country he hears the people complain: Is Jahveh not in Zion? is He no longer the King of His people there? The suffix in מלכּהּ refers to "daughter of my people," and the King is Jahveh; cf. Isa 33:22. They ask whether Jahveh is no longer King in Zion, that He may release His people from captivity and bring them back to Zion. To this the voice of God replies with the counter-question: Why have they provoked me with their idolatry, sc. so that I had to give them over into the power of the heathen for punishment? "Images" is expounded by the apposition: vanities (no-gods; for הבל, see on Jer 2:5) of a foreign land. Because they have chosen the empty idols from abroad (Isa 14:22) as their gods, Jahveh, the almighty God of Zion, has cast them out into a far country amidst strange people. The people goes on to complain in Jer 8:20 : Past is the harvest...and we are not saved. As Schnur. remarked, these words have something of the proverb about them. As a country-man, hoping for a good harvest, falls into despair as to his chances, so the people have been in vain looking for its rescue and deliverance. The events, or combinations of events, to which it looked for its rescue are gone by without bringing any such result. Many ancient commentators, following Rashi, have given too special a significance to this verse in applying it to the assistance expected from Egypt in the time of Jehoiakim or Zedekiah. Hitz. is yet more mistaken when he takes the saying to refer to an unproductive harvest. From Jer 8:19 we see that the words are spoken by the people while it pines in exile, which sets its hopes of being saved not in the productiveness of the harvest, but in a happy turn of the political situation.

Jer 8:21-22

The hopeless case of the people and kingdom moves the seer so deeply, that he bursts forth with the cry: For the breaking of my people I am broken (the Hoph. השׁבּרתּי, of the breaking of the heart, only here; in this sig. usu. the Niph., e.g., Jer 38:7. Horror hath taken hold on me, is stronger than: Anguish hath taken hold on me, Jer 6:24, Mic 4:9. Help is nowhere to be found. This thought is in Jer 8:22 clothed in the question: Is there no balm in Gilead, or no physician there? "There" points back to Gilead. Graf's remark, that "it is not known that the physicians were got from that quarter," shows nothing more than that its author has mistaken the figurative force of the words. צרי, balsam, is mentioned in Gen 37:25 as an article of commerce carried by Midianite merchants to Egypt (cf. Eze 27:17), but is hardly the real balsam from Mecca (amyris opobalsamum), which during the Roman sovereignty was grown under culture in the gardens of Jericho, and which only succeeds in a climate little short of tropical. It was more likely the resina of the ancients, a gum procured from the terebinth or mastic tree (lentiscus, σχῖνος), which, acc. to Plin. h. nat. xxiv. 22, was held in esteem as a medicament for wounds (resolvitur resina ad vulnerum usus et malagmata oleo). Acc. to our passage and Jer 46:11, cf. Gen 37:25, it was procured chiefly from Gilead; cf. Movers, Phniz. ii. 3, S. 220ff., and the remarks on Gen 37:25. To these questions a negative answer is given. From this we explain the introduction of a further question with כּי: if there were balm in Gilead, and a physician there, then a plaister would have been laid on the daughter of my people, which is not the case. As to עלתה , lit., a plaister comes upon, see on Jer 30:17.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Why - The people at length seem to bethink themselves, and thus to bespeak each other. Silent - Keep close within our walls.

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¹⁵ Therefore thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635] concerning the prophets [05030]; Behold, I will feed [0398] them with wormwood [03939], and make them drink [08248] the water [04325] of gall [07219]: for from the prophets [05030] of Jerusalem [03389] is profaneness [02613] gone forth [03318] into all the land [0776].

¹⁵ Therefore thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], the God [0430] of Israel [03478]; Behold, I will feed [0398] them, even this people [05971], with wormwood [03939], and give them water [04325] of gall [07219] to drink [08248].

¹⁷ For I will restore [05927] health [0724] unto thee, and I will heal [07495] thee of thy wounds [04347], saith [05002] the LORD [03068]; because they called [07121] thee an Outcast [05080], saying, This is Zion [06726], whom no man seeketh after [01875].

²⁵ And they sat down [03427] to eat [0398] bread [03899]: and they lifted up [05375] their eyes [05869] and looked [07200], and, behold, a company [0736] of Ishmeelites [03459] came [0935] from Gilead [01568] with their camels [01581] bearing [05375] spicery [05219] and balm [06875] and myrrh [03910], going [01980] to carry it down [03381] to Egypt [04714].

¹¹ Go up [05927] into Gilead [01568], and take [03947] balm [06875], O virgin [01330], the daughter [01323] of Egypt [04714]: in vain [07723] shalt thou use many [07235] medicines [07499]; for thou shalt not be cured [08585].

¹⁷ Judah [03063], and the land [0776] of Israel [03478], they were thy merchants [07402]: they traded [05414] in thy market [04627] wheat [02406] of Minnith [04511], and Pannag [06436], and honey [01706], and oil [08081], and balm [06875].

²² Is there no balm [06875] in Gilead [01568]; is there no physician [07495] there? why then [03588] is not the health [0724] of the daughter [01323] of my people [05971] recovered [05927]?

⁹ Now why dost thou cry [07321] out aloud [07452]? is there no king [04428] in thee? is thy counsellor [03289] perished [06]? for pangs [02427] have taken [02388] thee as a woman in travail [03205].

²⁴ We have heard [08085] the fame [08089] thereof: our hands [03027] wax feeble [07503]: anguish [06869] hath taken hold [02388] of us, and pain [02427], as of a woman in travail [03205].

⁷ Now when Ebedmelech [05663] the Ethiopian [03569], one [0376] of the eunuchs [05631] which was in the king's [04428] house [01004], heard [08085] that they had put [05414] Jeremiah [03414] in the dungeon [0953]; the king [04428] then sitting [03427] in the gate [08179] of Benjamin [01144];

²¹ For the hurt [07667] of the daughter [01323] of my people [05971] am I hurt [07665]; I am black [06937]; astonishment [08047] hath taken hold [02388] on me.
²² Is there no balm [06875] in Gilead [01568]; is there no physician [07495] there? why then [03588] is not the health [0724] of the daughter [01323] of my people [05971] recovered [05927]?

¹⁹ Behold the voice [06963] of the cry [07775] of the daughter [01323] of my people [05971] because of them that dwell in a far [04801] country [0776]: Is not the LORD [03068] in Zion [06726]? is not her king [04428] in her? Why have they provoked me to anger [03707] with their graven images [06456], and with strange [05236] vanities [01892]?

²⁰ The harvest [07105] is past [05674], the summer [07019] is ended [03615], and we are not saved [03467].

²² For I will rise up [06965] against them, saith [05002] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], and cut off [03772] from Babylon [0894] the name [08034], and remnant [07605], and son [05209], and nephew [05220], saith [05002] the LORD [03068].

⁵ Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068], What iniquity [05766] have your fathers [01] found [04672] in me, that they are gone far [07368] from me, and have walked [03212] after [0310] vanity [01892], and are become vain [01891]?

²² For the LORD [03068] is our judge [08199], the LORD [03068] is our lawgiver [02710], the LORD [03068] is our king [04428]; he will save [03467] us.

¹⁸ When I would comfort [04010] myself against sorrow [03015], my heart [03820] is faint [01742] in me.

¹⁸ When I would comfort [04010] myself against sorrow [03015], my heart [03820] is faint [01742] in me.
¹⁹ Behold the voice [06963] of the cry [07775] of the daughter [01323] of my people [05971] because of them that dwell in a far [04801] country [0776]: Is not the LORD [03068] in Zion [06726]? is not her king [04428] in her? Why have they provoked me to anger [03707] with their graven images [06456], and with strange [05236] vanities [01892]?
²⁰ The harvest [07105] is past [05674], the summer [07019] is ended [03615], and we are not saved [03467].
²¹ For the hurt [07667] of the daughter [01323] of my people [05971] am I hurt [07665]; I am black [06937]; astonishment [08047] hath taken hold [02388] on me.
²² Is there no balm [06875] in Gilead [01568]; is there no physician [07495] there? why then [03588] is not the health [0724] of the daughter [01323] of my people [05971] recovered [05927]?

¹⁸ Their bows [07198] also shall dash [07376] the young men [05288] to pieces [07376]; and they shall have no pity [07355] on the fruit [06529] of the womb [0990]; their eye [05869] shall not spare [02347] children [01121].

²³ They shall lay hold [02388] on bow [07198] and spear [03591]; they are cruel [0394], and have no mercy [07355]; their voice [06963] roareth [01993] like the sea [03220]; and they ride [07392] upon horses [05483], set in array [06186] as men [0376] for war [04421] against thee, O daughter [01323] of Zion [06726].

⁸ And the sucking child [03243] shall play [08173] on the hole [02352] of the asp [06620], and the weaned child [01580] shall put [01911] his hand [03027] on the cockatrice [06848]' den [03975].

¹⁷ For, behold, I will send [07971] serpents [05175], cockatrices [06848], among you, which will not be charmed [03908], and they shall bite [05391] you, saith [05002] the LORD [03068].

¹⁷ And they shall eat up [0398] thine harvest [07105], and thy bread [03899], which thy sons [01121] and thy daughters [01323] should eat [0398]: they shall eat up [0398] thy flocks [06629] and thine herds [01241]: they shall eat up [0398] thy vines [01612] and thy fig trees [08384]: they shall impoverish [07567] thy fenced [04013] cities [05892], wherein thou [02007] trustedst [0982], with the sword [02719].

¹³ Will I eat [0398] the flesh [01320] of bulls [047], or drink [08354] the blood [01818] of goats [06260]?

¹³ They gaped [06475] upon me with their mouths [06310], as a ravening [02963] and a roaring [07580] lion [0738].

¹¹ Because ye were glad [08055], because ye rejoiced [05937], O ye destroyers [08154] of mine heritage [05159], because ye are grown fat [06335] as the heifer [05697] at grass [01877] [01758], and bellow [06670] as bulls [047];

³ At the noise [06963] of the stamping [08161] of the hoofs [06541] of his strong [047] horses, at the rushing [07494] of his chariots [07393], and at the rumbling [01995] of his wheels [01534], the fathers [01] shall not look back [06437] to their children [01121] for feebleness [07510] of hands [03027];

²² Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068], Behold, a people [05971] cometh [0935] from the north [06828] country [0776], and a great [01419] nation [01471] shall be raised [05782] from the sides [03411] of the earth [0776].

¹⁵ For a voice [06963] declareth [05046] from Dan [01835], and publisheth [08085] affliction [0205] from mount [02022] Ephraim [0669].

¹⁶ The snorting [05170] of his horses [05483] was heard [08085] from Dan [01835]: the whole land [0776] trembled [07493] at the sound [06963] of the neighing [04684] of his strong ones [047]; for they are come [0935], and have devoured [0398] the land [0776], and all [04393] that is in it; the city [05892], and those that dwell [03427] therein.

¹⁹ Hast thou utterly [03988] rejected [03988] Judah [03063]? hath thy soul [05315] lothed [01602] Zion [06726]? why hast thou smitten [05221] us, and there is no healing [04832] for us? we looked [06960] for peace [07965], and there is no good [02896]; and for the time [06256] of healing [04832], and behold trouble [01205]!

¹⁰ Then said [0559] I, Ah [0162], Lord [0136] GOD [03069]! surely [0403] thou hast greatly [05377] deceived [05377] this people [05971] and Jerusalem [03389], saying [0559], Ye shall have peace [07965]; whereas the sword [02719] reacheth [05060] unto the soul [05315].

¹⁵ We looked [06960] for peace [07965], but no good [02896] came; and for a time [06256] of health [04832], and behold trouble [01205]!

¹⁵ For thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478] unto me; Take [03947] the wine [03196] cup [03563] of this fury [02534] at my hand [03027], and cause all the nations [01471], to whom I send [07971] thee, to drink [08248] it.

¹⁷ And ye have seen [07200] their abominations [08251], and their idols [01544], wood [06086] and stone [068], silver [03701] and gold [02091], which were among them:)

³² For their vine [01612] is of the vine [01612] of Sodom [05467], and of the fields [07709] of Gomorrah [06017]: their grapes [06025] are grapes [06025] of gall [07219], their clusters [0811] are bitter [04846]:

⁵ Declare [05046] ye in Judah [03063], and publish [08085] in Jerusalem [03389]; and say [0559], Blow [08628] ye the trumpet [07782] in the land [0776]: cry [07121], gather together [04390], and say [0559], Assemble [0622] yourselves, and let us go [0935] into the defenced [04013] cities [05892].

¹⁴ Why do we sit still [03427]? assemble [0622] yourselves, and let us enter [0935] into the defenced [04013] cities [05892], and let us be silent [01826] there: for the LORD [03068] our God [0430] hath put us to silence [01826], and given us water [04325] of gall [07219] to drink [08248], because we have sinned [02398] against the LORD [03068].

²² Is there no balm [06875] in Gilead [01568]; is there no physician [07495] there? why then [03588] is not the health [0724] of the daughter [01323] of my people [05971] recovered [05927]?

²¹ For the hurt [07667] of the daughter [01323] of my people [05971] am I hurt [07665]; I am black [06937]; astonishment [08047] hath taken hold [02388] on me.

²⁰ The harvest [07105] is past [05674], the summer [07019] is ended [03615], and we are not saved [03467].

¹⁸ When I would comfort [04010] myself against sorrow [03015], my heart [03820] is faint [01742] in me.

¹⁷ For, behold, I will send [07971] serpents [05175], cockatrices [06848], among you, which will not be charmed [03908], and they shall bite [05391] you, saith [05002] the LORD [03068].

¹⁵ We looked [06960] for peace [07965], but no good [02896] came; and for a time [06256] of health [04832], and behold trouble [01205]!