Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes concerning the prophets, Beholde, I will feede them with wormewood, and make them drinke the water of gall: for from the prophets of Ierusalem is wickednesse gone forth into all the lande.
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Psalms 69:21For they gaue me gall in my meate, and in my thirst they gaue me vineger to drinke.
Jeremiah 9:14But haue walked after the stubbernesse of their owne heart, and after Baalims, which their fathers taught them,
Lamentations 3:5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour.
Lamentations 3:19Remembring mine affliction, and my mourning, the wormewood and the gall.
Revelation 8:11And the name of the starre is called wormewood: therefore the thirde part of the waters became wormewood, 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 →