KJV King James Version
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
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Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”
WEB World English Bible
Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.
ASV American Standard Version
Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, concerning the prophets: Lo, I am causing them to eat wormwood, And have caused them to drink water of gall, For, from prophets of Jerusalem Hath profanity gone forth to all the land.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 23
12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery [ways] in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, [even] the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, [and] not out of the mouth of the LORD.
17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard [it]?
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לָכֵ֞ןH3651 · kenrightכֹּֽה־H3541 · kohthusאָמַ֨רH559 · a.marto sayיְהוָ֤הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDצְבָאוֹת֙H6635 · tsa.vaarmyעַל־H5921 · aluponהַנְּבִאִ֔יםH5030 · na.viprophetהִנְנִ֨יH2005 · henlook!מַאֲכִ֤ילH398 · a.khalto eatאוֹתָם֙H853 · et[Obj.]לַֽעֲנָ֔הH3939 · la.a.nahwormwoodוְהִשְׁקִתִ֖יםH8248 · sha.qahto water: wateringמֵי־H4325 · ma.yimwaterרֹ֑אשׁH7219 · roshpoisonכִּ֗יH3588 · kiforמֵאֵת֙H854 · etwithנְבִיאֵ֣יH5030 · na.viprophetיְרוּשָׁלִַ֔םH3389 · ye.ru.sha.laimJerusalemיָצְאָ֥הH3318 · ya.tsato come out: comeחֲנֻפָּ֖הH2613 · cha.nu.phahprofanenessלְכָל־H3605 · kolallהָאָֽרֶץ׃ פH776 · e.retsland: country/planet
Cross-references
Jeremiah 8:14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.Jeremiah 9:15Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.Psalm 69:21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.Lamentations 3:5He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.Matthew 27:34They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted [thereof], he would not drink.Revelation 8:11And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.Lamentations 3:19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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