Jeremiah 8:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink because we have sinned against the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ Why 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ [Then say the people to each other] Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities and be silent or perish there! For the Lord our God has decreed our ruin and given us bitter and poisonous water to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Why are we sitting here? Come, let’s go to the fortified towns and meet our doom there. The LORD our God has doomed us by giving us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ "Why are we sitting still? Assemble, and let us enter the fortified city, and let us remain silent there. For the Lord our God has brought us to silence, and he has given us the water of gall as a drink. For we have sinned against the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced city, and let us be silent there. For the Lord our God hath put us to silence and hath given us water of gall to drink: for we have sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:14 Cross References

2 Samuel 20:6

David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom; take your lord’s servants and pursue him, or he will find fortified cities for himself and escape from us.”

Psalm 39:2

I was silent and still; I held my peace to no avail; my distress grew worse;

Psalm 69:21

They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Isaiah 47:5

Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter Chaldea! For you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.

Jeremiah 14:20

We acknowledge our wickedness, O Lord, the iniquity of our ancestors, for we have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 14:7

Although our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name’s sake; our rebellions indeed are many, and we have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: I am going to make them eat wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us, for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our ancestors, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 35:11

But when King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon came up against the land, we said, ‘Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and the army of the Arameans.’ That is why we are living in Jerusalem.”

Jeremiah 9:14

but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am feeding this people with wormwood and giving them poisonous water to drink.

Lamentations 3:19

The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall!

Leviticus 10:3

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord meant when he said, ‘Through those who are near me I will show myself holy, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” And Aaron was silent.

Amos 6:10

And if a relative, one who burns it, takes up the body to bring it out of the house and says to someone in the innermost parts of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” the answer will come, “No.” Then the relative shall say, “Hush! We must not mention the name of the Lord.”

Habakkuk 2:20

But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him!

Zechariah 2:13

Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.

Matthew 27:34

they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.

Deuteronomy 29:18

It may be that there is among you a man or woman or a family or tribe whose heart is already turning away from the Lord our God to serve the gods of those nations. It may be that there is among you a root sprouting poisonous and bitter growth.

Deuteronomy 32:32

Their vine comes from the vinestock of Sodom, from the vineyards of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter;