Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness; he hath made me drunk with wormwood.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
In Context
14I have been a laughing-stock to all my people, their song all the day.
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel-stones; He hath covered me with ashes.
Cross References
Job 9:18Who will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness!
Psalms 88:4I am counted with those who are going down to the pit; I am like one who hath no strength.
Isaiah 51:21Therefore, hear this, thou afflicted, Thou drunken, and not with wine!
Jeremiah 4:18Thy way and thy doings have brought this upon thee; This is the fruit of thy wickedness; It is bitter; it reacheth to thy heart.
Jeremiah 9:15Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, And give them water of hemlock to drink.
Jeremiah 25:15For thus hath Jehovah, the God of Israel, said to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand; and let all the nations to which I shall send thee drink of 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 →