Jeremiah 8:14
“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
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In Context
15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
Cross References
Numbers 5:18The 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. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
Deuteronomy 32:32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.
2 Kings 7:3Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?
Psalms 69:21They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
Jeremiah 9:14but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”
Jeremiah 14:20We acknowledge, LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.
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 →