Lamentations 3:15
HE. He has filled me with bitterness; he has inebriated me with wormwood.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
In Context
14HE. I have become a derision to all my people, their song throughout the day.
16VAU. And he has broken each one of my teeth; he has fed me with ashes.
Cross References
Job 9:18He does not permit my spirit to rest, and he fills me with bitterness.
Psalms 88:4I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant:
Isaiah 51:21Therefore, listen to this, O poor little ones, and you who have been inebriated, but not by wine.
Jeremiah 4:18Your ways and your thoughts have brought these things upon you. This is your own wickedness. And it is bitter, because it has touched your heart.
Jeremiah 9:15For this reason, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will feed this people with absinthe, and I will give them the water of gall to drink.
Jeremiah 25:15For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Take the chalice of the wine of this fury from my hand. And you shall cause all the nations, to which I will send you, to drink from 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 →