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Jeremiah 9:15 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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. "

Jeremiah 9:15

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13 The LORD says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways,

14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”

15 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.

16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”

17 The LORD of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.

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Jeremiah 23:15

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"Therefore the LORD of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poisoned water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”"

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"therefore the LORD of Armies says, ‘Behold, I will punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by famine."

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"I, the LORD, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”"

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"Be it known now to the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings."

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Isaiah 49:26

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"I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”"

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Jeremiah 8:14

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"“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD."

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Jeremiah 9:1

"Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!"

Jeremiah 9:2

"Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men."

Jeremiah 9:3

"“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says the LORD."

Jeremiah 9:4

"“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer."

Jeremiah 9:5

"Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity."

Jeremiah 9:6

"Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says the LORD."

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