Lamentations 3:15
He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
In Context
14I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.
16By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
Cross References
Job 9:18He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.
Psalms 88:4\88:3\For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
Isaiah 51:21So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and overcome, but not with wine:
Jeremiah 4:18Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.
Jeremiah 9:15So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.
Jeremiah 25:15For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said to me: Take the cup of the wine of this wrath from my hand, and make all the nations to whom I send you take of 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 →