Jeremiah 8:14

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Wherefore are we sitting still? Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced cities, And we are silent there, For Jehovah our God hath made us silent, Yea, He causeth us to drink water of gall, For we have sinned against Jehovah.

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  • Jer 23:15 : 15 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.
  • Jer 9:15 : 15 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,
  • Jer 35:11 : 11 and it cometh to pass, in the coming up of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon unto the land, that we say, Come, and we enter Jerusalem, because of the force of the Chaldeans, and because of the force of Aram -- and we dwell in Jerusalem.'
  • Lam 3:19 : 19 Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!
  • Matt 27:34 : 34 they gave him to drink vinegar mixed with gall, and having tasted, he would not drink.
  • Deut 29:18 : 18 lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart is turning to-day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations, lest there be in you a root fruitful of gall and wormwood:
  • 2 Sam 20:6 : 6 and David saith unto Abishai, `Now doth Sheba son of Bichri do evil to us more than Absalom; thou, take the servants of thy lord, and pursue after him, lest he have found for himself fenced cities, and delivered himself `from' our eye.'
  • Ps 69:21 : 21 And they give for my food gall, And for my thirst cause me to drink vinegar.
  • Jer 4:5-6 : 5 Declare in Judah, and in Jerusalem sound, And say ye, `Blow a trumpet in the land,' Call ye fully, and say ye: `Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced city.' 6 Lift up an ensign Zionward, Strengthen yourselves, stand not still, For evil I am bringing in from the north, And a great destruction.
  • 2 Kgs 7:3-4 : 3 And four men have been leprous, at the opening of the gate, and they say one unto another, `What -- we are sitting here till we have died; 4 if we have said, We go in to the city, then the famine `is' in the city, and we have died there; and if we have sat here, then we have died; and now, come and we fall unto the camp of Aram; if they keep us alive, we live, and if they put us to death -- we have died.'
  • Ps 39:2 : 2 I was dumb `with' silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.
  • Deut 32:32 : 32 For of the vine of Sodom their vine `is', And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes `are' grapes of gall -- They have bitter clusters;
  • Lev 10:3 : 3 And Moses saith unto Aaron, `It `is' that which Jehovah hath spoken, saying, By those drawing near to Me I am sanctified, and in the face of all the people I am honoured;' and Aaron is silent.
  • Num 5:18-24 : 18 and the priest hath caused the woman to stand before Jehovah, and hath uncovered the woman's head, and hath given into her hands the present of the memorial, it `is' a present of jealousy, and in the hand of the priest are the bitter waters which cause the curse. 19 `And the priest hath caused her to swear, and hath said unto the woman, If no man hath lain with thee, and if thou hast not turned aside `to' uncleanness under thy husband, be free from these bitter waters which cause the curse; 20 and thou, if thou hast turned aside under thy husband, and if thou hast been defiled, and any man doth give his copulation to thee besides thy husband -- 21 (then the priest hath caused the woman to swear with an oath of execration, and the priest hath said to the woman) -- Jehovah doth give thee for an execration, and for a curse, in the midst of thy people, in Jehovah's giving thy thigh to fall, and thy belly to swell, 22 and these waters which cause the curse have gone into thy bowels, to cause the belly to swell, and the thigh to fall; and the woman hath said, Amen, Amen. 23 `And the priest hath written these execrations in a book, and hath blotted `them' out with the bitter waters, 24 and hath caused the woman to drink the bitter waters which cause the curse, and the waters which cause the curse have entered into her for bitter things.
  • Jer 14:20 : 20 We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee.
  • Lam 3:27-28 : 27 Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth. 28 He sitteth alone, and is silent, For He hath laid `it' upon him.
  • Amos 6:10 : 10 And lifted him up hath his loved one, even his burner, To bring forth the bones from the house, And he said to him who `is' in the sides of the house, `Is there yet with thee?' And he said, `None,' then he said, `Hush! Save to make mention of the name of Jehovah.'
  • Hab 2:20 : 20 And Jehovah `is' in His holy temple, Be silent before Him, all the earth!
  • Zech 2:13 : 13 Hush, all flesh, because of Jehovah, For He hath been roused up from His holy habitation!'

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