Jeremiah 8:13-15

New International Reader's Version

¹³ “ ‘ “I will take away their harvest,”
    announces the Lord.
    “There will not be any grapes on the vines.
The trees will not bear any figs.
    The leaves on the trees will dry up.
What I have given my people
    will be taken away from them.” ’ ”

¹⁴ Why are we sitting here?
    Let’s gather together!
Let’s run to the cities that have high walls around them!
    Let’s die there!
The Lord our God has sentenced us to death.
    He has given us poisoned water to drink.
    That’s because we’ve sinned against him.
¹⁵ We hoped peace would come.
    But nothing good has happened to us.
We hoped we would finally be healed.
    But there is only terror.