Jeremiah 9:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

Therefore thus says 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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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    'I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them until I have finished them off.'

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    therefore thus saith{H559} Jehovah{H3068} of hosts,{H6635} the God{H430} of Israel,{H3478} Behold, I will feed{H398} them, even this people,{H5971} with wormwood,{H3939} and give them water{H4325} of gall{H7219} to drink.{H8248}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Therefore thus saith{H559}{(H8804)} the LORD{H3068} of hosts{H6635}, the God{H430} of Israel{H3478}; Behold, I will feed{H398}{(H8688)} them, even this people{H5971}, with wormwood{H3939}, and give them water{H4325} of gall{H7219} to drink{H8248}{(H8689)}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Therfore, thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes, the God of Israel: Beholde, I will fede this people with wormwod, and geue the gall to drynke.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    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:

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Therefore thus saith the Lorde of hoastes, the God of Israel: Beholde, I wyll feede this people with wormewood, and geue them gall to drinke.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    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,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    So then, listen to what I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, say.‘I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 8:14 : 14 Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us bitter water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 You feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.
  • Lam 3:15 : 15 He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.
  • Jer 23:15 : 15 Therefore thus says 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 profaneness has gone forth into all the land.
  • Jer 25:15 : 15 For thus says the LORD God of Israel to me; Take the wine cup of this fury at My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
  • Isa 2:17 : 17 And 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.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for how much is he to be accounted of?
  • Deut 29:18 : 18 Lest there should be among you a man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns 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 bears bitter poison and wormwood;
  • Ps 60:3 : 3 You have shown Your people hard things; You have made us drink the wine of astonishment.
  • Ps 69:21 : 21 They also gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
  • Ps 75:8 : 8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture, and he pours out the same; but the dregs of it, all the wicked of the earth shall drain and drink.
  • Lam 3:19 : 19 Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
  • Rev 8:11 : 11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters because they were made bitter.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    85%

    15 Therefore thus says 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 profaneness has gone forth into all the land.

  • Jer 9:16
    80%

    16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

  • Lam 3:15
    77%

    15 He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.

  • Jer 29:17-18
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    76%

    17 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

    18 And I will pursue them with the sword, famine, and pestilence, and will deliver them to be moved to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them.

  • Jer 25:15-17
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    76%

    15 For thus says the LORD God of Israel to me; Take the wine cup of this fury at My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.

    16 And they shall drink, and stagger, and go mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

    17 Then I took the cup from the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the LORD had sent me:

  • Jer 25:27-28
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    27 Therefore you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink, and be drunk, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

    28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; You shall certainly drink.

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    13 I will surely consume them, says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall wither; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

    14 Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us bitter water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

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    73%

    9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their harm, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

    10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.

  • Ezek 4:13
    73%

    13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them.

  • Amos 9:4
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    4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them; and I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

  • Jer 9:14
    73%

    14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

  • Jer 9:7
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    7 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and test them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

  • Jer 48:12
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    12 Therefore behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will send to him wanderers, who shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels and break their bottles.

  • Jer 14:16
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    16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; they will have no one to bury them—neither them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters—for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

  • Jer 13:9
    73%

    9 Thus says the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • Lam 3:19
    72%

    19 Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

  • 1 Kgs 14:15
    72%

    15 For the LORD shall strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall uproot Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

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    17 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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    17 My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

  • Ezek 15:6
    72%

    6 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Like the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 5:14
    72%

    14 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

  • Zeph 1:17
    72%

    17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like refuse.

  • Jer 15:7
    72%

    7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they do not return from their ways.

  • Hos 9:14
    72%

    14 Give them, O LORD: what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

  • Jer 13:13
    72%

    13 Then you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

  • Jer 9:9
    72%

    9 Shall I not visit them for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • Jer 11:22
    71%

    22 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:

  • Ps 80:5
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    5 You feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.

  • Isa 3:1
    71%

    1 For indeed, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah the support and the staff, the whole support of bread and the whole support of water,

  • Ezek 12:19
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    19 And say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with desolation, that her land may be desolate from all that is in it, because of the violence of all who dwell therein.

  • Jer 19:15
    71%

    15 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.

  • Hos 9:2
    71%

    2 The threshing floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.

  • Deut 29:18
    71%

    18 Lest there should be among you a man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns 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 bears bitter poison and wormwood;

  • 1 Kgs 9:7
    71%

    7 Then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, I will cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

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    13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and carved themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

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    16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

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    71%

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    71%

    3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the remnant of those that remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts.