Jeremiah 8:14
“Why are we sitting still? Assemble, and let us enter the fortified city, and let us remain silent there. For the Lord our God has brought us to silence, and he has given us the water of gall as a drink. For we have sinned against the Lord.
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In Context
15We expected peace, but there was nothing good. We expected a time of health, and behold, dread.”
Cross References
Numbers 5:18And while the woman stands before the Lord, he shall uncover her head, and he shall place over her hands the sacrifice of recollection and oblation of jealousy. But he shall take hold of the most bitter waters, in which he has gathered curses with loathing.
Deuteronomy 32:32Their vines are of the vines of Sodom, but from the suburbs of Gomorrah. Their grapes are the grapes of gall, and their grape clusters are most bitter.
2 Kings 7:3Now there were four lepers beside the entrance of the gate. And they said one to another: “Should we choose to stay here until we die?
Jeremiah 9:14And they have gone after the depravity of their own heart, and after Baal, which they learned from their fathers.”
Jeremiah 14:20O Lord, we acknowledge our impieties, the iniquities of our fathers, that we have sinned against you.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 8:14-22
Destruction Threatened for Sin; Despair of Sinners in Trouble; The Prophet's Lamentation. ( b. c. 606.) 13 I will surely consume them, saith the Lord : there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have… Read the whole commentary →