Jeremiah 8:14
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14 “Why do we sit still?
(A)Assemble yourselves,
And let us enter the fortified cities,
And let us be silent there.
For the Lord our God has put us to silence
And given us (B)water[a] of gall to drink,
Because we have sinned against the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 8:14 Bitter or poisonous water
Jeremiah 23:15
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15 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:
‘Behold, I will feed them with (A)wormwood,
And make them drink the water of gall;
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
[a]Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’ ”
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- Jeremiah 23:15 Or Pollution
Jeremiah 9:15
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15 therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will (A)feed them, this people, (B)with wormwood, and give them [a]water of gall to drink.
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- Jeremiah 9:15 Bitter or poisonous water
Lamentations 3:19
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- Lamentations 3:19 bitterness
Jeremiah 35:11
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11 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, ‘Come, let us (A)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.”
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Matthew 27:34
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34 (A)they gave Him [a]sour wine mingled with gall to drink. But when He had tasted it, He would not drink.
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- Matthew 27:34 NU omits sour
Psalm 69:21
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21 They also gave me gall for my food,
(A)And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
2 Samuel 20:6
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6 And David said to (A)Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take (B)your lord’s servants and pursue him, lest he find for himself fortified cities, and escape us.”
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Deuteronomy 29:18
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18 so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, (A)whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, (B)and that there may not be among you a root bearing (C)bitterness or wormwood;
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Zechariah 2:13
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13 (A)Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for He is aroused (B)from His holy habitation!”
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Habakkuk 2:20
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20 “But(A) the Lord is in His holy temple.
Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”
Amos 6:10
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10 And when [a]a relative of the dead, with one who will burn the bodies, picks up the [b]bodies to take them out of the house, he will say to one inside the house, “Are there any more with you?”
Then someone will say, “None.”
And he will say, (A)“Hold your tongue! (B)For we dare not mention the name of the Lord.”
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Lamentations 3:27-28
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27 (A)It is good for a man to bear
The yoke in his youth.
28 (B)Let him sit alone and keep silent,
Because God has laid it on him;
Jeremiah 14:20
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20 We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness
And the iniquity of our (A)fathers,
For (B)we have sinned against You.
Jeremiah 4:5-6
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An Imminent Invasion
5 Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say:
(A)“Blow the trumpet in the land;
Cry, ‘Gather together,’
And say, (B)‘Assemble yourselves,
And let us go into the fortified cities.’
6 Set up the [a]standard toward Zion.
Take refuge! Do not delay!
For I will bring disaster from the (C)north,
And great destruction.”
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- Jeremiah 4:6 banner
Psalm 39:2
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2 (A)I was mute with silence,
I held my peace even from good;
And my sorrow was stirred up.
2 Kings 7:3-4
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The Syrians Flee
3 Now there were four leprous men (A)at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die? 4 If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore, come, let us surrender to the (B)army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall only die.”
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Deuteronomy 32:32
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32 For (A)their vine is of the vine of Sodom
And of the fields of Gomorrah;
Their grapes are grapes of gall,
Their clusters are bitter.
Numbers 5:18-24
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18 Then the priest shall stand the woman before the (A)Lord, uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy. And the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse. 19 And the priest shall put her under oath, and say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray to uncleanness while under your husband’s authority, be free from this bitter water that brings a curse. 20 But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has lain with you”— 21 then the priest shall (B)put the woman under the oath of the curse, and he shall say to the woman—(C)“the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the Lord makes your thigh [a]rot and your belly swell; 22 and may this water that causes the curse (D)go into your stomach, and make your belly swell and your thigh rot.”
‘(E)Then the woman shall say, “Amen, so be it.”
23 ‘Then the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall scrape them off into the bitter water. 24 And he shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter her to become bitter.
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- Numbers 5:21 Lit. fall away
Leviticus 10:3
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3 And Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke, saying:
‘By those (A)who come near Me
I must be regarded as holy;
And before all the people
I must be glorified.’ ”
So Aaron held his peace.
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