Jeremiah 8:13-15

New Catholic Bible

¹³ I will gather them all in,
    the Lord has promised;
there will be no grapes on the vine,
    no figs on the fig trees.
Even the leaves will be withered;
    what I have given them
    will be taken away from them.
¹⁴ Why are we just sitting idly here?
    It is time to mobilize.
Let us march into the fortified cities
    and perish there.
For the Lord, our God, has doomed us for destruction
    and given us poisoned water to drink
    because we have sinned against him.
¹⁵ We are praying for peace, but to no avail;
    for a time of healing,
    only to be confronted with terror.