Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, Why are we sitting here until we will have died?

If we say, We will enter the city, the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we are also dead. Now therefore, come, let us fall to the camp of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall have died.

Declare in Judah, and let it be heard in Jerusalem; and say, Blow the shofar in the land; cry out, gather together, and say, Gather yourselves and let us go into the fortified cities.

Set up the standard toward Zion, take refuge, do not wait around; for I will bring evil from the north, and great destruction.

But it came to pass when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of Syria. So we are living at Jerusalem.

And David said to Abishai, Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord's servants and pursue him, lest he find for himself fortified cities, and be snatched away before our eyes.

And Moses said to Aaron, This is what Jehovah has spoken, saying: By those who come near Me I will be honored as holy, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron kept still.

I was mute with silence; I kept still, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred up.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

He sits alone and keeps silence because He has laid it upon him.

And when a man's uncle shall take him away, and he who burns the bodies, to bring out the bones from the house; and he shall say to the one left in the recesses of the house, Are there any still with you? And he shall say, No. Then he shall say, Keep quiet! For we must not mention the name of Jehovah.

But Jehovah is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.

All flesh, be silent before Jehovah. For He is raised up out of His holy habitation.

Therefore thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and make them drink bitter water.

Therefore thus says Jehovah of Hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them wormwood, and make them drink bitter water; for godlessness has gone forth from the prophets of Jerusalem into all the land.

And the priest shall make the woman stand before Jehovah, uncover the woman's head, and put the offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy. And in the priest's hand shall be the bitter water that brings a curse.

But if you have turned aside while under your husband, and if you have been defiled and some man besides your husband has lain with you;

and this water that causes the curse shall go into your stomach, and make your belly swell and your thigh waste away. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

And he shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her to become bitter.

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.

They also gave Me gall for my food; and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink.

Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.

they gave Him vinegar mixed with gall to drink. But when He had tasted it, He would not drink.