14 They have healed the wound of my people lightly,
    saying, (A)‘Peace, peace,’
    (B)when there is no peace.

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26 O daughter of my people, (A)put on sackcloth,
    and (B)roll in ashes;
(C)make mourning as for an only son,
    most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
    will come upon us.

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19 Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
    from (A)the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    (B)Is her King not in her?”
(C)“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images
    and with their foreign idols?”

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21 For the wound of (A)the daughter of my people is my heart wounded;
    (B)I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.

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22 Is there no (A)balm in Gilead?
    Is there no physician there?
Why then has the health of the daughter of my people
    not been restored?

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[a] (A)Oh that my head were waters,
    and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
    for the slain of (B)the daughter of my people!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:1 Ch 8:23 in Hebrew

17 “You shall say to them this word:
(A)‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
    and let them not cease,
for the virgin (B)daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
    (C)with a very grievous blow.

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