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Jeremiah 8

Jer. 8:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Why do we sit still
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
? assemble
'acaph (Hebrew #622)
to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)
KJV usage: assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather (in, together, up again), X generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover (another from leprosy), (be) rereward, X surely, take (away, into, up), X utterly, withdraw.
Pronounce: aw-saf'
Origin: a primitive root
yourselves, and let us enter
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
into the defenced
mibtsar (Hebrew #4013)
from 1219; a fortification, castle, or fortified city; figuratively, a defender
KJV usage: (de-, most) fenced, fortress, (most) strong (hold).
Pronounce: mib-tsawr'
Origin: also (in plural) feminine (Dan. 11:l5) mibtsarah {mib-tsaw-raw'}
cities
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
, and let us be silent
damam (Hebrew #1826)
to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish
KJV usage: cease, be cut down (off), forbear, hold peace, quiet self, rest, be silent, keep (put to) silence, be (stand) still, tarry, wait.
Pronounce: daw-man'
Origin: a prim root (compare 1724, 1820)
there: for the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
our God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
hath put us to silence
damam (Hebrew #1826)
to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish
KJV usage: cease, be cut down (off), forbear, hold peace, quiet self, rest, be silent, keep (put to) silence, be (stand) still, tarry, wait.
Pronounce: daw-man'
Origin: a prim root (compare 1724, 1820)
, and givenc us water
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
of κgall
ro'sh (Hebrew #7219)
apparently the same as 7218; a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents)
KJV usage: gall, hemlock, poison, venom.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: or rowsh (Deut. 32:32) {roshe}
to drink
shaqah (Hebrew #8248)
to quaff, i.e. (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to
KJV usage: cause to (give, give to, let, make to) drink, drown, moisten, water. See 7937, 8354.
Pronounce: shaw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
, because we have sinned
chata' (Hebrew #2398)
properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
KJV usage: bear the blame, cleanse, commit (sin), by fault, harm he hath done, loss, miss, (make) offend(-er), offer for sin, purge, purify (self), make reconciliation, (cause, make) sin(-ful, -ness), trespass.
Pronounce: khaw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
against the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
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Jer. 23:15• 15Therefore 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. (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 entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
 4If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die. (2 Kings 7:3‑4)
enter.
Jer. 4:5‑6• 5Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
 6Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. (Jer. 4:5‑6)
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Jer. 35:11• 11But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us 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. (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 fenced cities, and escape us. (2 Sam. 20:6)
be silent.
Lev. 10:3• 3Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace. (Lev. 10:3)
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Psa. 39:2• 2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even 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 alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. (Lam. 3:27‑28)
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Amos 6:10• 10And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the Lord. (Amos 6:10)
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Hab. 2:20• 20But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. (Hab. 2:20)
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Zech. 2:13• 13Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation. (Zech. 2:13)
water.
Jer. 9:15• 15Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even 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 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. (Jer. 23:15)
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Num. 5:18‑24• 18And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
 19And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
 20But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
 21Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
 22And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
 23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
 24And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter. (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 gall, their clusters are bitter: (Deut. 32:32)
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Psa. 69:21• 21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. (Psa. 69:21)
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Lam. 3:19• 19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. (Lam. 3:19)
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Matt. 27:34• 34They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, 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.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "let us perish."
d
Or "made us to perish."
e
See Ps. 69.21.