Jeremiah 8:14

The people resolve to flee to fortified cities, acknowledging God has condemned them to ruin because of their sin. They finally confess that judgment is deserved.

Cross-references · 19

• Jer 23:15Therefore 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 9:15Therefore 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.
• Lam 3:19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
• Jer 35:11But 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.
• Ps 69:21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
• Matt 27:34They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
• Deut 29:18Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
• 2 Sam 20:6And 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.
• Deut 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:
• Jer 4:5–6Declare 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.
• Num 5:18–24And 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:
• Lev 10:3Then 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.
• Lam 3:27–28It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
• Hab 2:20But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
• Zech 2:13Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
• Ps 39:2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
• Jer 14:20We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
• Amos 6:10And 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.
• 2 Kgs 7:3–4And 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?

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