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Jeremiah 9:15

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to feed this people wormwood  and give them poisonous water to drink.

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Why are we just sitting here? Gather together; let’s enter the fortified cities and perish there, for the Lord our God has destroyed   us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the  Lord.


He filled me with bitterness, satiated me with wormwood.


Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says concerning the prophets: I am about to feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness  has spread throughout the land.


The name of the star is Wormwood,  and a third of the waters became wormwood. So, many of the people died from the waters, because they had been made bitter.


Remember  my affliction and my homelessness, the wormwood and the poison.


This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: ‘Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand and make all the nations to whom I am sending you drink from it.


Put no more trust in a mere human, who has only the breath in his nostrils. What is he really worth?


The pride of mankind will be brought low, and human loftiness will be humbled; the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.


Be sure there is no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Be sure there is no root among you bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.


‘The Lord will bring you and your king that you have appointed to a nation neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone.


I will send the sword, famine, and plague  against them until they have perished from the land I gave to them and their ancestors.’


I am watching over them for disaster and not for good,  and everyone from Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine until they are finished off.


I will devastate Elam before their enemies, before those who intend to take their lives. I will bring disaster on them, my burning anger. This is the  Lord’s declaration. I will send the sword after them until I finish them off.


You are to burn a third of it in the city when the days of the siege have ended;  you are to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind, for I will draw a sword to chase after them.


A third of your people will die by plague and be consumed by famine within you;  a third will fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter a third to every direction of the wind, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.





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