They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
Parallel translations
- KJV They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
- BSB They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.
- NKJV They also gave me gall for my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
- NASB They also gave me a bitter herb in my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
- NLT But instead, they give me poison for food; they offer me sour wine for my thirst.
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- Matt 27:34they gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he would not drink.
- Luke 23:36The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,
- Mark 15:23They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn’t take it.
- Matt 27:48Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him a drink.
- Mark 15:36One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to take him down.”
- John 19:28–30After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”
- 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.
- Jer 8:14“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
- 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.”
- 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;
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