Jeremiah 8:14

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Jeremiah 8:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible

12 Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.

13 I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”

14 Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

15 We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

16 The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.

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2 Kings 7:3

Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?

2 Kings 7:4

If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”

Jeremiah 4:5

Announce in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: “Blow the ram’s horn throughout the land. Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves and let us flee to the fortified cities.’

Jeremiah 4:6

Raise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction.

Jeremiah 35:11

So when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: ‘Come, let us go into Jerusalem to escape the armies of the Chaldeans and the Arameans.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”

2 Samuel 20:6

And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord’s servants and pursue him, or he will find fortified cities and elude us.”

Leviticus 10:3

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD meant when He said: ‘To those who come near Me I will show My holiness, and in the sight of all the people I will reveal My glory.’” But Aaron remained silent.

Psalms 39:2

I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.

Lamentations 3:27

It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.

Lamentations 3:28

Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him.

Amos 6:10

And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”

Habakkuk 2:20

But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.

Zechariah 2:13

Be silent before the LORD, all people, for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling.”

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”

Numbers 5:18

After the priest has the woman stand before the LORD, he is to let down her hair and place in her hands the grain offering of memorial, which is the grain offering for jealousy. The priest is to hold the bitter water that brings a curse.

Numbers 5:19

And he is to put the woman under oath and say to her, ‘If no other man has slept with you and you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you be immune to this bitter water that brings a curse.

Numbers 5:20

But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’—

Numbers 5:21

and the priest shall have the woman swear under the oath of the curse—‘then may the LORD make you an attested curse among your people by making your thigh shrivel and your belly swell.

Numbers 5:22

May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’

Numbers 5:23

And the priest shall write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.

Numbers 5:24

He is to have the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her and cause her bitter suffering.

Deuteronomy 32:32

But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.

Psalms 69:21

They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.

Lamentations 3:19

Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Matthew 27:34

they offered Him wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, He refused to drink it.