Jeremiah 8:14

New King James Version

“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, And let us enter the fortified cities, And let us be silent there. For the Lord our God has put us to silence And given us water of gall to drink, Because we have sinned against the Lord.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:6

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

Psalm 39:2

I was mute with silence, I held my peace even from good; And my sorrow was stirred up.

Psalm 69:21

They also gave me gall for my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Isaiah 47:5

“Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; For you shall no longer be called The Lady of Kingdoms.

Jeremiah 14:20

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

Jeremiah 14:7

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

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 3:25

We lie down in our shame, And our reproach 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 35:11

But it came to pass, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, ‘Come, let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and for fear of the army of the Syrians.’ So we dwell at Jerusalem.”

Jeremiah 9:14

but they have walked according to the dictates of their own hearts and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them,”

Jeremiah 9:15

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

Lamentations 3:19

Remember my affliction and roaming, The wormwood and the gall.

Leviticus 10:3

And Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke, saying: ‘By those who come near Me I must be regarded as holy; And before all the people I must be glorified.’ ” So Aaron held his peace.

Amos 6:10

And when a relative of the dead, with one who will burn the bodies, picks up the bodies to take them out of the house, he will say to one inside the house, “Are there any more with you?” Then someone will say, “None.” And he will say, “Hold your tongue! For we dare 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 is aroused from His holy habitation!”

Matthew 27:34

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

Deuteronomy 29:18

so that there may not be among you 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 that there may not be among you a root bearing bitterness or wormwood;

Deuteronomy 32:32

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.