Lamentations 3:15
He has filled me with bitterness; he has filled me up with bitter wormwood.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
In Context
14Now everyone laughs at me, singing songs that mock me all day long.
16He has broken my teeth with grit; he has trampled me in the dust.
Cross References
Job 9:18He doesn't give me a chance even to catch my breath; instead he fills my life with bitter suffering.
Psalms 88:4I'm counted among the dying; a man with no strength.
Isaiah 51:21So please listen to this, you poor people, sitting there in a drunken state, but not from drinking wine.
Jeremiah 4:18You've brought this on yourself by your own attitudes and actions. This is your punishment, and it's so painful, it's like being stabbed in the heart!”
Jeremiah 9:15So this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Watch out! I will give these people wormwood to eat and poisoned water to drink.
Jeremiah 25:15This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, told me: Take this cup I'm handing to you. It contains the wine of my anger. You are to make all the nations I 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 →