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 Yahweh of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”
• Jer 9:15therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
• Lam 3:19Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
• Jer 35:11But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, 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 will dwell at Jerusalem.’”
• Ps 69:21They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
• Matt 27:34they gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he would not drink.
• Deut 29:18lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
• 2 Sam 20:6David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”
• Deut 32:32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.
• Jer 4:5–6Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let us go into the fortified cities!’
• Num 5:18–24The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
• Lev 10:3Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” Aaron held his peace.
• Lam 3:27–28It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
• Hab 2:20But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”
• Zech 2:13Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”
• Ps 39:2I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
• Jer 14:20We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.
• Amos 6:10“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’
• 2 Kgs 7:3–4Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?

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