Jeremiah 8:14
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced city, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and hath given us water of gall to drink: for we have sinned against the Lord.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
15We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and behold fear.
Cross References
Numbers 5:18And when the woman shall stand before the Lord, he shall uncover her head, and shall, put on her hands the sacrifice of remembrance, and the oblation of jealousy: and he himself shall hold the most bitter waters, whereon he hath heaped curses with execration.
Deuteronomy 32:32Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter.
2 Kings 7:3Now there were four lepers, at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another: What mean we to stay here till we die?
Psalms 69:21In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none.
Jeremiah 9:14But they have gone after the perverseness of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them.
Jeremiah 14:20We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquities of our fathers, because 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 →