Lamentations 3:15
He has filled me with bitterness, 1 He has drenched me with gall. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
In Context
14I became a laughingstock to all my people; 1 And their song all the day. 1
16And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, 1 He has fed me with ashes. 1
Cross References
Job 9:18For he suffers me not to take breath, 1 But he has filled me with bitterness. 1
Psalms 88:4I made a covenant with my chosen ones, 1 I swore unto David my servant. 1
Isaiah 51:21Therefore hear, thou afflicted one, and drunken, but not with wine;
Jeremiah 4:18Thy ways and thy devices have brought these things upon thee; this is thy wickedness, for it is bitter, for it has reached to thy heart.
Jeremiah 9:15and I will scatter them among the nations, to them whom neither they nor their fathers knew; and I will send a sword upon them, until I have consumed them with it.
Jeremiah 25:15Thus saith the Lord, The bow of Elam is broken, even the chief of their power.
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 →