15. We wait for peace to no avail;for a time of healing, but terror comes instead.
16. From Dan is heardthe snorting of horses;The neighing of stallionsshakes the whole land.They come to devour the land and everything in it,the city and its inhabitants.
17. Yes, I will send against youpoisonous snakes.Against them no charm will workwhen they bite you—oracle of the Lord.
18. My joy is gone,grief is upon me,my heart is sick.
19. Listen! the cry of the daughter of my people,far and wide in the land!“Is the Lord no longer in Zion,is her King no longer in her midst?”Why do they provoke me with their idols,with their foreign nonentities?
20. “The harvest is over, the summer ended,but we have not yet been saved!”