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15 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:
I am going to make them eat wormwood
    and give them poisoned water to drink,
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
    ungodliness has spread throughout the land.(A)

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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 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am feeding this people with wormwood and giving them poisonous water to drink.(A)

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15 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “See, I will make this people eat bitter food(A) and drink poisoned water.(B)

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14 Why do we sit still?
Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities
    and perish there,
for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
    and has given us poisoned water to drink
    because we have sinned against the Lord.(A)

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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 He has filled 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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he has besieged and enveloped me
    with bitterness and tribulation;

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He has besieged me and surrounded me
    with bitterness(A) and hardship.(B)

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21 They gave me poison for food,
    and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.(A)

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21 They put gall in my food
    and gave me vinegar(A) for my thirst.(B)

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11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many died from the water because it was made bitter.(A)

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11 the name of the star is Wormwood.[a] A third(A) of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 8:11 Wormwood is a bitter substance.

34 they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.(A)

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34 There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall;(A) but after tasting it, he refused to drink it.

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19 The thought of my affliction and my homelessness
    is wormwood and gall!(A)

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19 I remember my affliction and my wandering,
    the bitterness(A) and the gall.(B)

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