Lamentations 3:15
He has filled me with bitter things, || He has filled me [with] wormwood.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
In Context
14I have been a derision to all my people, || Their song all the day.
16And He breaks with gravel my teeth, || He has covered me with ashes.
Cross References
Job 9:18He does not permit me to refresh my spirit, || But fills me with bitter things.
Psalms 88:4I have been reckoned with those going down [to] the pit, || I have been as a man without strength.
Isaiah 51:21Therefore, please hear this, || O afflicted and drunken one, and not with wine,
Jeremiah 4:18“Your way and your doings have done these to you, || This [is] your distress, for [it is] bitter, || For it has struck to your heart.”
Jeremiah 9:15Therefore, thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Behold, I am causing them—this people—to eat wormwood, || And I have caused them to drink water of gall,
Jeremiah 25:15For thus said YHWH, God of Israel, to me: “Take the wine cup of this fury out of My hand, and you have caused all the nations to drink it to whom I am sending you;
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 →