Jeremiah 9:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵Therefore 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 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Lamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-22)

Two things the prophet designs, in these verses, with reference to the approaching destruction of Judah and Jerusalem:—1. To convince people of the justice of God in it, that they had by sin brought it upon themselves and that therefore they had no reason to quarrel with God, who did them no wrong at all, but a great deal of reason to fall out with their sins, which did them all this mischief. 2.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. feed--(Jr 8:14; 23:15; Psa 80:5).