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.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Jeremiah 9:15 in context
Jeremiah 9:12–18
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Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
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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,
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but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”
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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.
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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.”
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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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Let them make haste
and take up a wailing for us,
that our eyes may run down with tears
and our eyelids gush out with waters.
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