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Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore, this is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says:“ I am about to feed this people wormwood and give them poisonous water to drink.
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Jeremiah 25:15-18
This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me:“ Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand and make all the nations to whom I am sending you drink from it.They will drink, stagger, and go out of their minds because of the sword I am sending among them.”So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink from it.Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah, its kings and its officials, to make them a desolate ruin, an example for scorn and cursing— as it is today;
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Isaiah 51:17-22
Wake yourself, wake yourself up! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk the cup of his fury from the LORD’s hand; you who have drunk the goblet to the dregs— the cup that causes people to stagger.There is no one to guide her among all the children she has raised; there is no one to take hold of her hand among all the offspring she has brought up.These two things have happened to you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? How can I comfort you?Your children have fainted; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net. They are full of the LORD’s fury, the rebuke of your God.So listen to this, suffering and drunken one— but not with wine.This is what your Lord says— the LORD, even your God, who defends his people—“ Look, I have removed from your hand the cup that causes staggering; that goblet, the cup of my fury. You will never drink it again.
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Psalms 60:3
You have made your people suffer hardship; you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger.
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Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and my homelessness, the wormwood and the poison.
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Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore, this is what the LORD of Armies says concerning the prophets: I am about to feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.
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Ruth 1:20
“ Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara,” she answered,“ for the Almighty has made me very bitter.
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Jeremiah 25:27
“ Then you are to say to them,‘ This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, as a result of the sword I am sending among you.’
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Job 9:18
He doesn’t let me catch my breath but fills me with bitter experiences.
