Jeremiah mourned for the people

18 I grieve very much for the people of Judah, and my grieving does not end.

I am very sad [IDM].

19 Throughout our land, the people ask,

“Has Yahweh abandoned Jerusalem?

Is he, our city’s king, no longer there?”

Yahweh replies, “Why do the people cause me to become very angry by worshiping idols and foreign gods?” [RHQ]

20 The people say, “The harvest season is finished, the ◄summer/hot season► has ended,

and we hoped that we would receive blessings from Yahweh,

but he has not rescued us from our enemies.”

21 I cry because my people have been crushed.

I mourn, and I am completely dismayed.

22 I ask, “Surely there is [RHQ] medicinal balm in the Gilead region!

Surely there are [RHQ] doctors there!”

But my people have been badly wounded in their spirits,

and nothing can heal them.

9 I wish that my head was like [MET] a spring of water,

and that my eyes were like a fountain of tears.

Then I would cry night and day for all of my people who have been killed by our enemies.

2 I wish that I could leave my people and forget them,

and go and live in a shack/shelter in the desert,

because they have not remained faithful [MET] to Yahweh;

they are a mob of people who deceive others.