Jeremiah 8:14
Why are, we, sitting still? Gather yourselves together and let us enter the defenced cities And let us be silent there,—For, Yahweh our God, hath put us to silence And made us drink poisoned water, Because we have sinned against Yahweh.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
15A waiting For prosperity, but no welfare,—For a time of healing, but lo! terror.
Cross References
Numbers 5:18and the priest shall cause the woman to stand before Yahweh, and shall bare the head of the woman, and shall place upon her hands the reminding gift, it being a jealousy gift,—and in the hand of the priest, shall be the deadly water that bringeth a curse;
Deuteronomy 32:32For of the vine of Sodom, is their vine, And of the vineyards of Gomorrah,—Their grapes, are grapes of gall, Clusters of bitter things, are theirs:
2 Kings 7:3Now there were, four men, lepers, at the entrance of the gate,—and they said one to another—Why are, we, sitting here until we are dead?
Psalms 69:21But they put in my food—poison! And, for my thirst, they gave for my drink—vinegar!
Jeremiah 9:14But have gone their way, After the stubbornness of their own heart,—And after the Baals which their fathers taught them,
Jeremiah 14:20We acknowledge O Yahweh Our own lawlessness 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 →