24:008:013 I will surely consume them, saith the lord:
there shall be no
grapes
on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf
shall
fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass
away
from them.
24:008:014 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.
24:008:015 We looked for peace, but no good came;
and for a time of
health,
and behold trouble!
24:008:016 The snorting of his horses was heard from
Dan: the whole land
trembled
at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for
they
are come, and have devoured the land, and all that
is in
it;
the city, and those that dwell therein.
24:008:017 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices,
among you,
which
will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith
the
lord.
24:008:018 When I would comfort myself against sorrow,
my heart is faint
in
me.
24:008:019 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter
of my people
because
of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the
lord
in
Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked
me to
anger
with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
24:008:020 The harvest is past, the summer is ended,
and we are not
saved.
24:008:021 For the hurt of the daughter of my people
am I hurt; I am
black;
astonishment hath taken hold on me.
24:008:022 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no
physician there? why
then
is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
24:009:001 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes
a fountain of
tears,
that I might weep day and night for the slain of the
daughter
of my people!
24:009:002 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging
place of wayfaring
men;
that I might leave my people, and go from them! for
they
be
all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
24:009:003 And they bend their tongues like their
bow for lies: but they
are
not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they
proceed
from
evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the lord.
24:009:004 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour,
and trust ye not in
any
brother: for every brother will utterly supplant,
and
every
neighbour will walk with slanders.
24:009:005 And they will deceive every one his neighbour,
and will not
speak
the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak
lies,
and
weary themselves to commit iniquity.


