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18 (A)lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there be among you (B)a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

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18 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns(A) away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.(B)

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14 Why are we sitting still?
(A)Gather yourselves, and let us (B)go into the fortified cities
And let us be silent there
Because Yahweh our God has silenced us
And given us [a](C)poisoned water to drink,
For (D)we have sinned against Yahweh.

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  1. Jeremiah 8:14 Or gall

14 Why are we sitting here?
    Gather together!
Let us flee to the fortified cities(A)
    and perish there!
For the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
    and given us poisoned water(B) to drink,
    because we have sinned(C) against him.

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15 Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts concerning the prophets,

‘Behold, I am going to (A)feed them wormwood
And make them drink [a]poisoned water,
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
Pollution has gone forth into all the land.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 23:15 Or gall

15 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says concerning the prophets:

“I will make them eat bitter food
    and drink poisoned water,(A)
because from the prophets of Jerusalem
    ungodliness(B) has spread throughout the land.”

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15 He has (A)saturated me with bitterness;
He has sated me with wormwood.

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15 He has filled me with bitter herbs
    and given me gall to drink.(A)

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