Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitternesse, and geuen me wormewood to drinke.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
In Context
14I am laughed to scorne of all my people, they make songues vpon me all the day long.
16He hath smitten my teeth in peeces with stones, and roulled me in the dust.
Cross References
Isaiah 51:21And therfore thou miserable and drunken (howbeit not with wine) heare this:
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 →