Jeremiah 8:14
'Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be cut off there; for the LORD our God hath cut us off, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold terror!'
Cross References
Numbers 5:18And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal-offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal-offering of jealousy; and the priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that causeth the curse.
Deuteronomy 32:32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter;
2 Kings 7:3Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said one to another: 'Why sit we here until we die?
Psalms 69:21(69-22) Yea, they put poison into my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Jeremiah 9:14(9-13) But have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them.
Jeremiah 14:20We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, even 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 →