Jeremiah 8:14
Holman Christian Standard Bible
God’s People Unrepentant
14 Why are we just sitting here?
Gather together; let us enter the fortified cities
and perish there,[a]
for the Lord our God has destroyed[b] us.
He has given us poisoned water to drink,(A)
because we have sinned against the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 8:14 Or there be silenced
- Jeremiah 8:14 Or silenced
Jeremiah 8:14
New International Version
Jeremiah 8:14
King James Version
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 8:14
New King James Version
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.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 8:14 Bitter or poisonous water
Jeremiah 23:15
Holman Christian Standard Bible
15 Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says concerning the prophets:
I am about to feed them wormwood
and give them poisoned water to drink,(A)
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
ungodliness[a] has spread throughout the land.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 23:15 Or pollution
Jeremiah 23:15
New International Version
15 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says concerning the prophets:
Jeremiah 23:15
King James Version
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.
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Jeremiah 23:15
New King James Version
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.’ ”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 23:15 Or Pollution
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