18 Be sure there is no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Be sure there is no root among you bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.(A)

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18 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns(A) away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.(B)

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18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

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15 Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says concerning the prophets:

I am about to feed them wormwood
and give them poisoned water to drink,(A)
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
ungodliness[a] has spread throughout the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 23:15 Or pollution

15 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says concerning the prophets:

“I will make them eat bitter food
    and drink poisoned water,(A)
because from the prophets of Jerusalem
    ungodliness(B) has spread throughout the land.”

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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.

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ז Zayin

19 Remember[a] my affliction and my homelessness,(A)
the wormwood and the poison.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:19 Or I remember

19 I remember my affliction and my wandering,
    the bitterness(A) and the gall.(B)

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19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

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