Jeremiah 8

²They will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, which they have served, after which they have walked, which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be like dung on the surface of the earth.

³Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says the LORD of Armies.

⁴“Moreover you shall tell them, ‘The LORD says:

⁵Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding?

⁶I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right.

⁷Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times.

⁸“‘How do you say, “We are wise, and the LORD’s law is with us”?

⁹The wise men are disappointed.

¹⁰Therefore I will give their wives to others

¹¹They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying,

¹²Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?

¹³“‘I will utterly consume them, says the LORD.

¹⁴“Why do we sit still?

¹⁵We looked for peace, but no good came;

¹⁶The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan.

¹⁷“For, behold, I will send serpents,

¹⁸Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow!

¹⁹Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off:

²⁰“The harvest is past.

²¹For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt.

²²Is there no balm in Gilead?