14 but they have (A)walked according to the [a]dictates of their own hearts and after the Baals, (B)which their fathers taught them,” 15 therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will (C)feed them, this people, (D)with wormwood, and give them [b]water of gall to drink. 16 I will (E)scatter them also among the Gentiles, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. (F)And I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:14 stubbornness or imagination
  2. Jeremiah 9:15 Bitter or poisonous water

14 Instead, they have followed(A) the stubbornness of their hearts;(B) they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.” 15 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “See, I will make this people eat bitter food(C) and drink poisoned water.(D) 16 I will scatter them among nations(E) that neither they nor their ancestors have known,(F) and I will pursue them with the sword(G) until I have made an end of them.”(H)

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