Lamentations 3:5
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5 he has besieged and enveloped me
with bitterness and tribulation;
Lamentations 3:19
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19 The thought of my affliction and my homelessness
is wormwood and gall!(A)
Jeremiah 23:15
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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)
Job 19:8
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8 He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
and he has set darkness upon my paths.(A)
Lamentations 3:7-9
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7 He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;
he has put heavy chains on me;(A)
8 though I call and cry for help,
he shuts out my prayer;(B)
9 he has blocked my ways with hewn stones;
he has made my paths crooked.
Jeremiah 9:15
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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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Jeremiah 8:14
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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)
Psalm 69:21
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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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