Verse 15

So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 8:14 : 14 Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.
  • Lam 3:15 : 15 He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.
  • Jer 23:15 : 15 So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.
  • Jer 25:15 : 15 For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said to me: Take the cup of the wine of this wrath from my hand, and make all the nations to whom I send you take of it.
  • Isa 2:17 : 17 And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.
  • Deut 29:18 : 18 So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;
  • Ps 60:3 : 3 You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.
  • Ps 69:21 : 21 They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.
  • Ps 75:8 : 8 For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.
  • Lam 3:19 : 19 Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.
  • Rev 8:11 : 11 And the name of the star is Wormwood: and a third part of the waters became bitter; and a number of men came to their end because of the waters, for they were made bitter.