Jeremiah 23:15

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So this is what the Lord All-Powerful says about those Jerusalem prophets: “I will make them suffer. Their food will be bitter, their water like poison. I will punish them because they started a spiritual sickness that spread through the whole country.”

Cross References

Jeremiah 8:14

“They will say, ‘Why are we just sitting here? Come, let’s run to the strong cities. If the Lord our God is going to make us die, then let’s die there. We have sinned against the Lord, so he has given us poisoned water to drink.

Jeremiah 9:15

So the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says, “I will soon make the people of Judah eat bitter food and drink poisoned water.

Lamentations 3:15

He gave me this poison to drink. He filled me with this bitter drink.

Lamentations 3:5

He built up bitterness and trouble against me. He surrounded me with bitterness and trouble.

Psalm 69:21

They gave me poison, not food. They gave me vinegar, not wine.

Revelation 8:11

The name of the star was Bitterness. And a third of all the water became bitter. Many people died from drinking this bitter water.

Matthew 27:34

There the soldiers gave Jesus some wine mixed with gall. But when he tasted it, he refused to drink it.

Lamentations 3:19

Remember, I am very sad, and I have no home. Remember the bitter poison that you gave me.

Deuteronomy 29:18

Be sure that there is no man, woman, family or tribe here today who turns away from the Lord our God. No one should go and serve the gods of the other nations. People who do that are like a plant that grows bitter and poisonous fruit.

Jeremiah 14:15

So this is what I, the Lord, say about the prophets who are speaking in my name. I did not send them. They said, ‘No enemy will ever attack this country. There will never be hunger in this land.’ So those prophets will die from hunger or by an enemy’s sword.

Zechariah 13:2

The Lord All-Powerful says, “At that time I will remove all the idols from the earth. People will not even remember their names, and I will remove the false prophets and unclean spirits from the earth.

Jeremiah 9:14

The people of Judah lived their own way. They were stubborn. They followed the false god Baal. Their fathers taught them to follow those false gods.”