Jeremiah 8:14
"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 sinned against the LORD."
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- Jeremiah 23:15
"Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 9:15
"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."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 35:11
"But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 69:21
"They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 3:19
"Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall."
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 32:32
"For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:"
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 29:18
"Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;"
Read in chapter → - Matthew 27:34
"They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink."
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 20:6
"And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us."
Read in chapter → - Zechariah 2:13
"Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation."
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