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.
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.
He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.
You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.
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.”
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.
Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!
Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?
And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup with foaming wine, well mixed, and he pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.
They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
You have made your people see hard things; you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger.
Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,
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