Jeremiah 8:14
“Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us poison-water to drink; because we have sinned against the Lord.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
15We hoped for peace, but no happiness is here; for a time of cure, and behold here is terror.”
Cross References
Numbers 5:18And the priest shall place the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman's head, and put upon her hands the meat-offering of memorial, it is the meat-offering of jealousy; and in the hand of the priest shall be the bitter waters that bring the curse.
Deuteronomy 32:32For from the vine of Sodom is their vine, and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, they bear bitter 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 remain here until we die?
Psalms 69:21(69:22) And they put into my food gall; and in my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.
Jeremiah 9:14(9:13) But have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Be'alim, which their fathers had taught them.
Jeremiah 14:20We know, O Lord, 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 →