11. And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying Peace, peace: when there was no peace.
12. They are confounded, because they have committed abomination: yea rather they are not confounded with confusion, and they have not know how to blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall fall, saith the Lord.
13. Gathering I will gather them together, saith the Lord, there is no grape on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig tree, the leaf is fallen: and I have given them the things that are passed away.
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.
15. We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and behold fear.
16. The snorting of his horse 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.
17. For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
18. My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me.
19. Behold the voice of the daughter 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?
20. The harvest is passed, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21. For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.
22. Is there no balm in Galaad? or is no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?