Jeremiah 9:15
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15 So now, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: Look! I will feed them with bitterness and give them poison to drink.
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Jeremiah 8:14
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14 “Then the people will say,
‘Why should we wait here to die?
Come, let’s go to the fortified towns and die there.
For the Lord our God has decreed our destruction
and has given us a cup of poison to drink
because we sinned against the Lord.
Lamentations 3:15
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15 He has filled me with bitterness
and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink.
Psalm 80:5
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5 You have fed us with sorrow
and made us drink tears by the bucketful.
Jeremiah 23:15
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15 Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says concerning the prophets:
“I will feed them with bitterness
and give them poison to drink.
For it is because of Jerusalem’s prophets
that wickedness has filled this land.”
Revelation 8:11
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11 The name of the star was Bitterness.[a] It made one-third of the water bitter, and many people died from drinking the bitter water.
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- 8:11 Greek Wormwood.
Lamentations 3:19
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19 The thought of my suffering and homelessness
is bitter beyond words.[a]
Footnotes
- 3:19 Or is wormwood and gall.
Jeremiah 25:15
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The Cup of the Lord’s Anger
15 This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled to the brim with my anger, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
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Isaiah 2:22
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22 Don’t put your trust in mere humans.
They are as frail as breath.
What good are they?
Isaiah 2:17
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17 Human pride will be humbled,
and human arrogance will be brought down.
Only the Lord will be exalted
on that day of judgment.
Psalm 75:8
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8 For the Lord holds a cup in his hand
that is full of foaming wine mixed with spices.
He pours out the wine in judgment,
and all the wicked must drink it,
draining it to the dregs.
Psalm 69:21
New Living Translation
21 But instead, they give me poison[a] for food;
they offer me sour wine for my thirst.
Footnotes
- 69:21 Or gall.
Psalm 60:3
New Living Translation
3 You have been very hard on us,
making us drink wine that sent us reeling.
Deuteronomy 29:18
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18 I am making this covenant with you so that no one among you—no man, woman, clan, or tribe—will turn away from the Lord our God to worship these gods of other nations, and so that no root among you bears bitter and poisonous fruit.
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