Discovery BoxJeremiah 9:15 
Context9:15 So then, listen to what I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all, 1 say. 2 ‘I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment. 3
Jeremiah 16:7
Context16:7 No one will take any food to those who mourn for the dead to comfort them. No one will give them any wine to drink to console them for the loss of their father or mother.
Jeremiah 42:14
Context42:14 You must not say, ‘No, we will not stay. Instead we will go and live in the land of Egypt where we will not face war, 4 or hear the enemy’s trumpet calls, 5 or starve for lack of food.’ 6
1 tn Heb “Yahweh of armies, the God of Israel.”
sn See the study notes on 2:9 and 7:3.
2 tn Heb “Therefore, thus says the
3 tn Heb “I will feed this people wormwood and make them drink poison water.” “Wormwood” and “poison water” are not to be understood literally here but are symbolic of judgment and suffering. See, e.g., BDB 542 s.v. לַעֲנָה.
4 tn Heb “see [or experience] war.”
5 tn Heb “hear the sound of the trumpet.” The trumpet was used to gather the troops and to sound the alarm for battle.
6 tn Jer 42:13-14 are a long complex condition (protasis) whose consequence (apodosis) does not begin until v. 15. The Hebrew text of vv. 13-14 reads: 42:13 “But if you say [or continue to say (the form is a participle)], ‘We will not stay in this land’ with the result that you do not obey [or “more literally, do not hearken to the voice of] the
