14 Why do we stay? [a]assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the strong cities, and let us be quiet there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water with [b]gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:14 He speaketh in the person of the people, who when the enemy cometh, will turn about to hide themselves, and acknowledge that it is God’s hand.
  2. Jeremiah 8:14 That is, hath brought us into extreme affliction, and thus they shall not attribute this plague to fortune, but to God’s just judgment, Jer. 9:15 and 23:15.

14 Why are we sitting here?
    Gather together!
Let us flee to the fortified cities(A)
    and perish there!
For the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
    and given us poisoned water(B) to drink,
    because we have sinned(C) against him.

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