Lamentations 3:15
He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
In Context
14I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
16He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes.
Cross References
Job 9:18He will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Psalms 88:4I am reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help,
Isaiah 51:21Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine.
Jeremiah 4:18Thy way and thy doings have procured these things to thee. This is thy wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reaches to thy heart.
Jeremiah 9:15Therefore thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Jeremiah 25:15For thus says LORD, the God of Israel, to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →