Deuteronomy 29:18
New King James Version
18 so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, (A)whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, (B)and that there may not be among you a root bearing (C)bitterness or wormwood;
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Jeremiah 8:14
New King James Version
14 “Why do we sit still?
(A)Assemble yourselves,
And let us enter the fortified cities,
And let us be silent there.
For the Lord our God has put us to silence
And given us (B)water[a] of gall to drink,
Because we have sinned against the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 8:14 Bitter or poisonous water
Jeremiah 23:15
New King James Version
15 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:
‘Behold, I will feed them with (A)wormwood,
And make them drink the water of gall;
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
[a]Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’ ”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 23:15 Or Pollution
Lamentations 3:15
New King James Version
15 (A)He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drink wormwood.
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