Lamentations 3:15
He hath sated me with bitter things, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
In Context
14I am become a laughing-stock to all my people, their [jeering] 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 recover my breath; but feedeth me overmuch with bitter things.
Psalms 88:4(88:5) I am counted with those that descend into the pit; I am become as a man without vigor:
Isaiah 51:21Therefore hear now this, O 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, which is so bitter, which so reacheth unto thy heart.
Jeremiah 9:15(9:14) Therefore thus hath said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them—this people, with wormwood, and give them poison-water to drink.
Jeremiah 25:15For thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel unto me, Take the cup of the wine of this fury out of 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 →