Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
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Interpretation
At length they begin to see the hand of God lifted up. And when God appears against us, every thing that is against us appears formidable.
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This thought runs through Jeremiah 8:13-17.