Lamentations 3:15
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
In Context
14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
16He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
Cross References
Job 9:18He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
Psalms 88:4I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
Isaiah 51:21Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.
Jeremiah 4:18“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
Jeremiah 9:15Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
Jeremiah 25:15This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you 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 →