Jeremiah 9:15

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

Psalm 60:3

You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.

Psalm 69:21

They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.

Psalm 75:8

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.

Psalm 80:5

You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

Isaiah 2:17

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.

Isaiah 2:22

Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

Jeremiah 23:15

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.

Jeremiah 24:10

And I will send the sword, and need of food, and disease, among them till they are all cut off from the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.

Jeremiah 25:15

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.

Jeremiah 44:27

See, I am watching over them for evil and not for good: all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be wasted by the sword and by need of food till there is an end of them.

Jeremiah 49:37

And I will let Elam be broken before their haters, and before those who are making designs against their lives: I will send evil on them, even my burning wrath, says the Lord; and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them:

Jeremiah 8:14

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.

Lamentations 3:15

He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

Lamentations 3:19

Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

Ezekiel 5:12

A third of you will come to death from disease, wasting away among you through need of food; a third will be put to the sword round about you; and a third I will send away to every wind, letting loose a sword after them.

Ezekiel 5:2

You are to have a third part burned with fire inside the town, when the days of the attack are ended; and a third part you are to take and give blows with the sword round about it; and give a third part for the wind to take away, and let loose a sword after them.

Deuteronomy 28:36

And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 29:18

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;

Revelation 8:11

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.