Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with bitter food and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”
Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.
Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them poisonous water to drink.
He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.
he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.
they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.
Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!
Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Contact me: openbibleinfo (at) gmail.com.