Jeremiah 23:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: I am going to make them eat wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.

Cross References

Psalm 69:21

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

Jeremiah 14:15

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name though I did not send them and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not come on this land’: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.

Jeremiah 8:14

Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink because we have sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:14

but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am feeding this people with wormwood and giving them poisonous water to drink.

Lamentations 3:15

He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:19

The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall!

Lamentations 3:5

he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;

Zechariah 13:2

On that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more, and also I will remove from the land the prophets and the unclean spirit.

Matthew 27:34

they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.

Deuteronomy 29:18

It may be that there is among you a man or woman or a family or tribe whose heart is already turning away from the Lord our God to serve the gods of those nations. It may be that there is among you a root sprouting poisonous and bitter growth.

Revelation 8:11

The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many died from the water because it was made bitter.