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Jer 23:15 — Therefore 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

will		Jer 8:14; Jer 9:15; Psa 69:21; Lam 3:5,15,19; Mat 27:34; Rev 8:11
profaneness		or, hypocrisy.

Correlating Passages

will

	Jer 8:14	Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
	Jer 9:15	Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
	Psa 69:21	They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
	Lam 3:5	He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.
	Lam 3:15	He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
	Lam 3:19	Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
	Mat 27:34	They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted [thereof], he would not drink.
	Rev 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.

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 23:15," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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