Jeremiah 8:14
Wherefore are we sitting still? Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced cities, And we are silent there, For Jehovah our God hath made us silent, Yea, He causeth us to drink water of gall, For we have sinned against Jehovah.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
15Looking for peace — and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.
Cross References
Numbers 5:18and the priest hath caused the woman to stand before Jehovah, and hath uncovered the woman's head, and hath given into her hands the present of the memorial, it [is] a present of jealousy, and in the hand of the priest are the bitter waters which cause the curse.
Deuteronomy 32:32For of the vine of Sodom their vine [is], And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes [are] grapes of gall — They have bitter clusters;
2 Kings 7:3And four men have been leprous, at the opening of the gate, and they say one unto another, 'What — we are sitting here till we have died;
Psalms 69:21And they give for my food gall, And for my thirst cause me to drink vinegar.
Jeremiah 9:14And they walk after the stubbornness of their heart, And after the Baalim, that their fathers taught them,
Jeremiah 14:20We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, 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 →