Jeremiah 8:14
Why doe we stay? assemble your selues, and let vs enter into the strong cities, and let vs be quiet there: for the Lord our God hath put vs to silence and giuen vs water with gall to drinke, because we haue sinned against the Lord.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
15We looked for peace, but no good came, and for a time of health, and behold troubles.
Cross References
Numbers 5:18After, the Priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and vncouer the womans head, and put the offring of the memorial in her hands: it is the ielousie offering, and the Priest shall haue bitter and cursed water in his hand,
Deuteronomy 32:32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the vines of Gomorah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters be bitter.
2 Kings 7:3Nowe there were foure leprous men at the entring in of the gate: and they saide one to an other, Why sitte we here vntill we die?
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,
Jeremiah 14:20We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickednesse and the iniquitie of our fathers: for we haue 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 →