KJV King James Version
Therefore 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.
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Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore 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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
WEB World English Bible
therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
ASV American Standard Version
therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing them—this people—to eat wormwood, And I have caused them to drink water of gall,
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 9
12 Who [is] the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth [and] is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15 Therefore 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.
16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning [women], that they may come:
18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
לָכֵ֗ןH3651 · kenrightכֹּֽה־H3541 · kohthusאָמַ֞רH559 · a.marto sayיְהוָ֤הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDצְבָאוֹת֙H6635 · tsa.vaarmyאֱלֹהֵ֣יH430 · e.lo.himGodיִשְׂרָאֵ֔לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelהִנְנִ֧יH2005 · henlook!מַאֲכִילָ֛םH398 · a.khalto eatאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָעָ֥םH5971 · ampeopleהַזֶּ֖הH2088 · zehthisלַֽעֲנָ֑הH3939 · la.a.nahwormwoodוְהִשְׁקִיתִ֖יםH8248 · sha.qahto water: wateringמֵי־H4325 · ma.yimwaterרֹֽאשׁ׃H7219 · roshpoison
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.Psalm 80:5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.Jeremiah 23:15Therefore 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.Isaiah 2:22Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?Psalm 75:8For in the hand of the LORD [there is] a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring [them] out, [and] drink [them].Psalm 69:21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.Lamentations 3:19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.Jeremiah 25:15For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.Deuteronomy 29:18Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;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.Psalm 60:3Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.Isaiah 2:17And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
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