Jeremiah 8:14

Modern English Version

Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter the fortified cities and let us perish there. For the Lord our God has doomed us and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

Cross References

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood and make them drink the water of gall, for from the prophets of Jerusalem profaneness has gone out into all the land.”

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them water of gall to drink.

Lamentations 3:19

Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Jeremiah 35:11

But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, we said, ‘Come, and let us go to Jerusalem before the army of the Chaldeans and before the army of the Arameans.’ So we have dwelt in Jerusalem.”

Matthew 27:34

they gave Him sour wine mingled with gall to drink. But when He tasted it, He would not drink it.

Psalm 69:21

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

2 Samuel 20:6

So David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will cause more harm for us than Absalom. You take your lord’s servants and pursue after him. Otherwise, he will find fortified cities and escape from our sight.”

Deuteronomy 29:18

lest there be among you a man or woman or family or tribe whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of these nations, and lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit;

Zechariah 2:13

Be still, all flesh before the Lord, for He is stirred from His holy habitation.

Habakkuk 2:20

But the Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him.

Amos 6:10

And when a relative or one who prepares the bodies picks them up to carry them out of the house, and says to someone in the recesses of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” and he says, “No,” he will say, “Hush!” —not to pronounce the name of the Lord.

Jeremiah 14:20

We acknowledge, O  Lord, our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against You.

Psalm 39:2

I was mute in silence; I held my peace to no avail, but my anguish grew worse.

Deuteronomy 32:32

For their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter.

Leviticus 10:3

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke, saying: ‘I will be sanctified by those who come near Me; and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” And Aaron held his peace.

Isaiah 47:5

Sit silently, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the queen of kingdoms.

Jeremiah 3:25

We lie down in our shame, and our humiliation covers us. For we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 14:7

O  Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do it for Your name’s sake. Indeed, our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.

Jeremiah 9:14

but have walked after the imagination of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.