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Jer. 8:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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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 givenc us water of κgall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

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Jer. 23:15• ¹⁵Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. (Jer. 23:15)

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or, poison.

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2 Kings 7:3‑4• ³And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate, and they said one to another, Why do we abide here until we die?
⁴If we say, Let us enter into the city, the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we abide here, we shall die. And now come, let us fall away to the camp of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they put us to death, we shall but die. (2 Kings 7:3‑4)

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Jer. 4:5‑6• ⁵Declare ye in Judah, and cause it to be heard in Jerusalem, and say, … and blow the trumpet in the land, cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced cities.
⁶Set up a banner toward Zion; take to flight, stay not! For I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction. (Jer. 4:5‑6)

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Jer. 35:11• ¹¹And it came to pass when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come and let us go into Jerusalem because of the army of the Chaldeans, and because of the army of Syria; and we dwell at Jerusalem. (Jer. 35:11)

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2 Sam. 20:6• ⁶And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom. Take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities and escape our sight. (2 Sam. 20:6)

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Lev. 10:3• ³And Moses said to Aaron, This is what Jehovah spoke, saying, I will be hallowed in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron was silent. (Lev. 10:3)

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Psa. 39:2• ²I was dumb with silence, I held my peace from good; and my sorrow was stirred. (Psa. 39:2)

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Lam. 3:27‑28• ²⁷It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth:
²⁸He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him; (Lam. 3:27‑28)

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Amos 6:10• ¹⁰And a man's uncle, and he that should burn him, shall take him up to bring out the bones from the house, and shall say unto him that is in the inner parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, None. And he will say, Silence! for we may not make mention of Jehovah's name. (Amos 6:10)

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Hab. 2:20• ²⁰But Jehovah is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him! (Hab. 2:20)

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Zech. 2:13• ¹³Let all flesh be silent before Jehovah; for he is risen up out of his holy habitation. (Zech. 2:13)

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Jer. 9:15• ¹⁵therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink, (Jer. 9:15)

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Jer. 23:15• ¹⁵Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. (Jer. 23:15)

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Num. 5:18‑24• ¹⁸And the priest shall set the woman before Jehovah, and uncover the woman's head, and put the memorial oblation in her hands, which is the jealousy offering; and in the hand of the priest shall be the bitter water that bringeth the curse.
¹⁹And the priest shall adjure her, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone astray in uncleanness, in being with another instead of thy husband, be free from this bitter water that bringeth the curse.
²⁰But if thou hast gone astray to another instead of thy husband, and hast been defiled, and a man other than thy husband have lain with thee,
²¹--then the priest shall adjure the woman with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman: Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to shrink, and thy belly to swell;
²²and this water that bringeth the curse shall enter into thy bowels, to make the belly to swell, and the thigh to shrink. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
²³And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall blot them out with the bitter water,
²⁴and he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that bringeth the curse, that the water that bringeth the curse may enter into her for bitterness. (Num. 5:18‑24)

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Deut. 32:32• ³²For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of poison, Bitter are their clusters; (Deut. 32:32)

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Psa. 69:21• ²¹Yea, they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. (Psa. 69:21)

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Lam. 3:19• ¹⁹Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall. (Lam. 3:19)

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Matt. 27:34• ³⁴they gave to him to drink vinegar mingled with gall; and having tasted it, he would not drink. (Matt. 27:34)

gall.

or, poison.

J. N. Darby Translation

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Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced cities, and let us be silentc there: for Jehovah our God hath put us to silenced, and given us water of galle to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

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c

Or "let us perish."

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Or "made us to perish."

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See Ps. 69.21.