Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.
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Psalms 69:21They gave me also 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 Baalim, which their fathers taught them;
Lamentations 3:5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Lamentations 3:19Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Revelation 8:11and the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 23:10-33
Guilt of False Prophets. ( b. c. 600.) 9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord , and because of the words of his holiness. 10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. 11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their… Read the whole commentary →