Jeremiah 8:14

Geneva Bible (1560)

Why doe we stay? assemble your selues, and let vs enter into the strong cities, and let vs be quiet there: for the Lorde our God hath put vs to silence and giuen vs water with gall to drinke, because we haue sinned against the Lord.

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  • Jer 23:15 : 15 Therefore thus saith the Lorde of hostes concerning the prophets, Beholde, I will feede them with wormewood, & make them drinke the water of gall: for from the prophets of Ierusalem is wickednesse gone forth into all the lande.
  • Jer 9:15 : 15 Therefore thus sayth the Lorde of hostes, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feede this people with wormewood, and giue them waters of gall to drinke:
  • Jer 35:11 : 11 But when Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel came vp into the land, we said, Come, & let vs go to Ierusalem, from the hoste of the Caldeans, and from the host of Aram: so we dwel at Ierusalem.
  • Lam 3:19 : 19 Remembring mine affliction, & my mourning, the wormewood and the gall.
  • Matt 27:34 : 34 They gaue him vineger to drinke, mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drinke.
  • Deut 29:18 : 18 That there should not be among you man nor woman, nor familie, nor tribe, which should turne his heart away this day from the Lorde our God, to goe and serue the gods of these nations, and that there shoulde not be among you any roote that bringeth forth gall & wormewood,
  • 2 Sam 20:6 : 6 Then Dauid sayd to Abishai, Now shal Sheba the sonne of Bichri doe vs more harme then did Absalom: take thou therefore thy lords seruants and followe after him, lest he get him walled cities, and escape vs.
  • Ps 69:21 : 21 For they gaue me gall in my meate, and in my thirst they gaue me vineger to drinke.
  • Jer 4:5-6 : 5 Declare in Iudah, and shewe forth in Ierusalem, and say, Blowe the trumpet in the lande: cry, and gather together, and say, Assemble your selues, and let vs goe into strong cities. 6 Set vp the standart in Zion: prepare to flee, and stay not: for I will bring a plague from the North, and a great destruction.
  • 2 Kgs 7:3-4 : 3 Nowe there were foure leprous men at the entring in of the gate: and they saide one to an other, Why sitte we here vntill we die? 4 If we say, We will enter into the citie, the famine is in the citie, and we shall die there: and if we sit here, we dye also. Nowe therefore come, and let vs fall into the campe of the Aramites: if they saue our liues, we shall liue: and if they kill vs, we are but dead.
  • Ps 39:2 : 2 I was dumme & spake nothing: I kept silece euen from good, and my sorow was more stirred.
  • Deut 32:32 : 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the vines of Gomorah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters be bitter.
  • Lev 10:3 : 3 Then Moses sayde vnto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will bee sanctified in the that come neere me, & before all the people I will be glorified: but Aaron held his peace.
  • Num 5:18-24 : 18 After, the Priest shal set the woman before the Lord, and vncouer the womans head, and put the offring of the memorial in her hands: it is the ielousie offering, and the Priest shall haue bitter and cursed water in his hand, 19 And the Priest shall charge her by an oth, and say vnto the woman, If no man haue lien with thee, neither thou hast turned to vncleannesse from thine husbande, be free from this bitter and cursed water. 20 But if thou hast turned fro thine husband, and so art defiled, and some man hath lyen with thee beside thine husband, 21 (Then the Priest shall charge the woman with an oth of cursing, and the Priest shal say vnto the woman) The Lorde make thee to be accursed, and detestable for the othe among thy people, and the Lord cause thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell: 22 And that this cursed water may goe into thy bowels, to cause thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot. Then the woman shall answere, Amen, Amen. 23 After, the Priest shal write these curses in a booke, and shall blot them out with the bitter water, 24 And shal cause the woman to drinke ye bitter and cursed water, and the cursed water, turned into bitternesse, shal enter into her.
  • Jer 14:20 : 20 We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickednesse and the iniquitie of our fathers: for we haue sinned against thee.
  • Lam 3:27-28 : 27 It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in his youth. 28 He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it vpon him.
  • Amos 6:10 : 10 And his vncle shall take him vp & burne him to cary out the bones out of the house, and shal say vnto him, that is by ye sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? And he shal say, None. Then shal he say, Holde thy tongue: for we may not remember the Name of the Lord.
  • Hab 2:20 : 20 But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth keepe silence before him.
  • Zech 2:13 : 13 Let all flesh be still before the Lord: for he is raised vp out of his holy place.

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