Why do we sit still? Gather yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there. For Jehovah our God has put us to silence, and has given us bitter water to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

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.

For thus says Jehovah the God of Israel to me, Take the wine cup of this wrath from My hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.

You have shown Your people hard things; You have made us drink the wine of staggering.

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

For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is fully mixed; and He pours out from it; but the dregs of it, all the wicked of the earth shall drain its dregs and drink.

You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink a third time.

And the pride of man shall be bowed down; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

Leave off from such a man, whose breath is in his nostril; for how is he to be accounted?

He has filled me with bitterness and made me drunk with wormwood.

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

And the name of the star is called Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter.