Jeremiah 9:15 “Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Be…”

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

World English Bible

Therefore the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

American Standard Version

therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore thus sayth the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feede this people with wormewood, and giue them waters of gall to drinke:

Darby Translation

therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink,

Young's Literal Translation

Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing them — this people — to eat wormwood, And I have caused them to drink water of gall,

Bible in Basic English

So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.

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Cross references

“I will”

Jeremiah 8:14 Psalm 80:5 Lamentations 3:15 Jeremiah 23:15 Jeremiah 25:15 Psalm 60:3

Jeremiah 8:14 · BSB

Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

Psalm 80:5 · BSB

You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

Lamentations 3:15 · BSB

He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

Jeremiah 23:15 · BSB

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”

Jeremiah 25:15 · BSB

This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.

Psalm 60:3 · BSB

You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.

Also

Deuteronomy 29:18

Deuteronomy 29:18 · BSB

Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous a…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”

16I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

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