Jeremiah 9:15

¹⁴“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

⁵You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

¹⁵He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.

¹⁵Therefore the LORD of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poisoned water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”

¹⁵For the LORD, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.

¹⁷The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

²²Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

¹⁸lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

²¹They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

³You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.