Jeremiah 8:13-15

Modern English Version

¹³ I will surely consume them,
    says the Lord.
    There will 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
    will pass away from them.

¹⁴ Why do we sit still?
    Assemble yourselves,
and let us enter the fortified cities
    and let us perish there.
For the Lord our God has doomed us
    and given us water of gall to drink,
    because we have sinned against the Lord.
¹⁵ We looked for peace,
    but no good came;
and for a time of health,
    but there was trouble!