Jeremiah 8:16
Verse 16 of 22. The 8th of 52 chapters in Jeremiah, in The Major Prophets.
12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed. They couldn’t blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says the LORD.
13“‘I will utterly consume them, says the LORD. No grapes will be on the vine, no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf will fade. The things that I have given them will pass away from them.’”
14“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
16The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan. The whole land trembles at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell therein.”
17“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says the LORD.
18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: “Isn’t the LORD in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign idols?”
20“The harvest is past. The summer has ended, and we are not saved.”
World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.