Jeremiah 9:15

New Living Translation

So now, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: Look! I will feed them with bitterness and give them poison to drink.

Cross References

Psalm 60:3

You have been very hard on us, making us drink wine that sent us reeling.

Psalm 69:21

But instead, they give me poison for food; they offer me sour wine for my thirst.

Psalm 75:8

For the Lord holds a cup in his hand that is full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours out the wine in judgment, and all the wicked must drink it, draining it to the dregs.

Psalm 80:5

You have fed us with sorrow and made us drink tears by the bucketful.

Isaiah 2:17

Human pride will be humbled, and human arrogance will be brought down. Only the Lord will be exalted on that day of judgment.

Isaiah 2:22

Don’t put your trust in mere humans. They are as frail as breath. What good are they?

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them with bitterness and give them poison to drink. For it is because of Jerusalem’s prophets that wickedness has filled this land.”

Jeremiah 24:10

And I will send war, famine, and disease until they have vanished from the land of Israel, which I gave to them and their ancestors.”

Jeremiah 25:15

This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled to the brim with my anger, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.

Jeremiah 44:27

For I will watch over you to bring you disaster and not good. Everyone from Judah who is now living in Egypt will suffer war and famine until all of you are dead.

Jeremiah 49:37

I myself will go with Elam’s enemies to shatter it. In my fierce anger, I will bring great disaster upon the people of Elam,” says the Lord. “Their enemies will chase them with the sword until I have destroyed them completely.

Jeremiah 8:14

“Then the people will say, ‘Why should we wait here to die? Come, let’s go to the fortified towns and die there. For the Lord our God has decreed our destruction and has given us a cup of poison to drink because we sinned against the Lord.

Lamentations 3:15

He has filled me with bitterness and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink.

Lamentations 3:19

The thought of my suffering and homelessness is bitter beyond words.

Ezekiel 5:12

A third of your people will die in the city from disease and famine. A third of them will be slaughtered by the enemy outside the city walls. And I will scatter a third to the winds, chasing them with my sword.

Ezekiel 5:2

Place a third of it at the center of your map of Jerusalem. After acting out the siege, burn it there. Scatter another third across your map and chop it with a sword. Scatter the last third to the wind, for I will scatter my people with the sword.

Deuteronomy 28:36

“The Lord will exile you and your king to a nation unknown to you and your ancestors. There in exile you will worship gods of wood and stone!

Deuteronomy 29:18

I am making this covenant with you so that no one among you—no man, woman, clan, or tribe—will turn away from the Lord our God to worship these gods of other nations, and so that no root among you bears bitter and poisonous fruit.

Revelation 8:11

The name of the star was Bitterness. It made one-third of the water bitter, and many people died from drinking the bitter water.