Jeremiah 8:14-16

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Why are we sitting here?
    Come, let’s go to the fortified towns
        and meet our doom there.
The Lord our God has doomed us
    by giving us poisoned water to drink,
        because we have sinned against the Lord!
¹⁵ We longed for relief,
        but received none;
    for a time of healing,
        but found only terror.
¹⁶ The snorting of their horses can be heard as far as Dan;
    the neighing of their stallions makes the whole land tremble.
They come to devour the land and everything in it,
    towns and people alike.