Jeremiah 8:14
Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced cities, and let us be silent there: for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
15Peace is looked for, and there is no good; a time of healing, and behold, terror.
Cross References
Numbers 5:18And the priest shall set the woman before Jehovah, and uncover the woman's head, and put the memorial oblation in her hands, which is the jealousy offering; and in the hand of the priest shall be the bitter water that bringeth the curse.
Deuteronomy 32:32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of poison, Bitter are their clusters;
2 Kings 7:3And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate, and they said one to another, Why do we abide here until we die?
Psalms 69:21Yea, they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Jeremiah 9:14but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them;
Jeremiah 14:20Jehovah, we acknowledge our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.
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 →