Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore 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.
Jeremiah 9:15 in other translations
| BSB | 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. |
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| WEB | Therefore the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink. |
| ASV | therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. |
| YLT | Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing them--this people--to eat wormwood, And I have caused them to drink water of gall, |
| DARBY | therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink, |
| BBE | So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink. |
| Webster | Therefore 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. |
What does Jeremiah 9:15 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 9:12-22
In Zion the voice of joy and praise used to be heard, while the people kept close to God; but sin has altered the sound, it is now the voice of lamentation. Unhumbled hearts lament their calamity, but not their sin, which is the cause of it. Let the doors be shut ever so fast, death steals upon us. It enters the palaces of princes and great men, though stately, strongly built, and guarded. Nor are those more safe…
Jeremiah 9:15 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 9:15
- Jeremiah 8:14
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.
- Psalms 80:5
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
- Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
- Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore 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.
- Jeremiah 25:15
For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
- Isaiah 2:22
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
- Psalms 69:21
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
- Isaiah 2:17
And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
- Psalms 60:3
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
- Psalms 75:8
For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
- Deuteronomy 29:18
Lest 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;
- Revelation 8:11
And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
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Context
- Jeremiah 9:14
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
- Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore 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.
- Jeremiah 9:16
I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
Jeremiah 9:15 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Por tanto, así ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel: He aquí que á este pueblo yo les daré á comer ajenjos, y les daré á beber aguas de hiel. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et je les disperserai parmi les nations qu’ils n’ont pas connues, eux et leurs pères; et j’enverrai après eux l’épée, jusqu’à ce que je les aie consumés. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Darum, so spricht Jehova der Heerscharen, der Gott Israels: Siehe, ich will sie, dieses Volk, mit Wermut speisen und sie mit bitterem Wasser tränken, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | idcirco hæc dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israël: Ecce ego cibabo populum istum absinthio, et potum dabo eis aquam fellis. |