Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
Bible References
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Jeremiah 8:14
The people say, "Why are we just sitting here? Let us gather together inside the fortified cities. Let us at least die there fighting, since the Lord our God has condemned us to die. He has condemned us to drink the poison waters of judgment because we have sinned against him.
Jeremiah 23:15
So then I, the Lord who rules over all, have something to say concerning the prophets of Jerusalem: 'I will make these prophets eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment. For the prophets of Jerusalem are the reason that ungodliness has spread throughout the land.'"
Jeremiah 25:15
So the Lord, the God of Israel, spoke to me in a vision. "Take this cup from my hand. It is filled with the wine of my wrath. Take it and make the nations to whom I send you drink it.
Psalm 60:3
You have made your people experience hard times; you have made us drink intoxicating wine.
Psalm 69:21
They put bitter poison into my food, and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.
Psalm 75:8
For the Lord holds in his hand a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices, and pours it out. Surely all the wicked of the earth will slurp it up and drink it to its very last drop."
Psalm 80:5
You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.
Isaiah 2:17
Proud men will be humiliated, arrogant men will be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
Lamentations 3:15
He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.
Revelation 8:11
(Now the name of the star is Wormwood.) So a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from these waters because they were poisoned.