Jeremiah 8:14-16

Easy-to-Read Version

¹⁴ “They will say, ‘Why are we just sitting here?
    Come, let’s run to the strong cities.
If the Lord our God is going to make us die,
    then let’s die there.
We have sinned against the Lord,
    so he has given us poisoned water to drink.
¹⁵ We hoped to have peace,
    but nothing good has come.
We hoped that he would forgive us,
    but only disaster has come.
¹⁶ From the land of the tribe of Dan,
    we hear the snorting^[a] of the enemy’s horses.
    The ground shakes from the pounding of their hooves.
They have come to destroy the land
    and everything in it.
They have come to destroy the city
    and all the people who live there.’”