Jeremiah 30:12-17

Modern English Version

Your bruise is incurable
    and your wound is severe.
¹³ There is no one to plead your cause
    that you may be bound up.
    You have no healing medicines.
¹⁴ All your lovers have forgotten you;
    they do not seek you;
for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy,
    with the chastisement of a cruel one,
because of the multitude of your iniquities, because your sins are numerous.
¹⁵ Why do you cry because of your affliction?
    Your sorrow is incurable.
Because of the multitude of your iniquities, because your sins are numerous,
    I have done these things to you.

¹⁶ Therefore all who devour you will be devoured;
    and all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity.
And those who plunder you will become plunder,
    and all who prey upon you I will give for prey.
¹⁷ For I will restore health to you,
    and I will heal you of your wounds,
    says the Lord,
because they called you an outcast, saying,
    “This is Zion whom no man cares for.”