Jeremiah 9:15 - Exposition
I will feed them … with wormwood. A figure for the bitter privations of captivity (comp. Lamentations 3:15 , "He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood"). Wormwood and gall—i.e; the poppy (Tristram)—are combined again in Deuteronomy 29:17 .
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