Jeremiah 23:15
Jeremiah chapter 23 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Therefore thus saith Jehovah 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 ungodliness gone forth into all the land.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Therefore 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Therefore thus saith Jehovah 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 ungodliness gone forth into all the land.
Context
v.14In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
v.15This passage
v.16Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Jehovah.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Lamentations 3:19
Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- Matthew 27:34
they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted it, he would not drink.
- Revelation 8:11
and the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
- Psalms 69:21
They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
- Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
- Lamentations 3:5
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.