Lamentations 3:15
He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
In Context
14I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Cross References
Job 9:18He suffereth me not to take my breath, for he filleth me with bitternesses.
Psalms 88:4I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:
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] unto thee; this is thy wickedness, yea, it is bitter, yea, it reacheth unto thy heart.
Jeremiah 9:15therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink,
Jeremiah 25:15For thus hath Jehovah the God of Israel said unto me: Take the cup of the wine of this fury 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 →