Jeremiah 8:14
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the strong cities, and let us be cast out there: for God has cast us out, and made us drink water of gall, because we have sinned before him.
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In Context
15We assembled for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, but behold anxiety.
Cross References
Numbers 5:18And the priest shall cause the woman to stand before the Lord, and shall uncover the head of the woman, and shall put into her hands the sacrifice of memorial, the sacrifice of jealousy; and in the hand of the priest shall be the water of this conviction that brings the curse.
Deuteronomy 32:32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, 1 And their vine-branch of Gomorrah: 1 Their grape is a grape of gall, 1 Their cluster is one of bitterness. 1
2 Kings 7:3And there were four leprous men by the gate of the city: and one said to his neighbor, Why sit we here until we die?
Jeremiah 9:14therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them with trouble and will cause them to drink water of gall:
Jeremiah 14:20We know, O Lord, our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers: for we have sinned before 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 →