Lamentations 3:15
He has filled me with ◄bitterness/great suffering►, like [MET] someone who drinks a very bitter liquid suffers.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
In Context
14All my relatives laugh at me; all day, every day they sing songs that make fun of me.
Cross References
Job 9:18It is as though he will not let me get/catch my breath, because he causes me to suffer all the time.
Psalms 88:4Because I have no more strength, other people also consider that I will soon die.
Isaiah 51:21So now, you people who have suffered much, you act as though you are drunk, but it is not because you have drunk a lot of wine.
Jeremiah 4:18You will be punished very severely; it will be as though a sword has stabbed your inner beings. But you are causing those things to happen to you because of the evil things that you have done.”
Jeremiah 9:15So now listen to what I, the Commander of the armies of angels, the God of the Israelis, say: What I will do will be like [MET] giving these people bitter things to eat and poison to drink:
Jeremiah 25:15Then Yahweh, the God we Israelis worship, gave me a vision. In the vision he was holding a cup of wine. He said, “Take from me this cup that is full of wine that represents punishment [MTY]. I will cause all the leaders of the nations to which I will send you to drink some of the wine in this cup.
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 →