Lamentations 3:15
VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with gall.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
In Context
14I became a laughing stock to all my people; and their song all the day.
16And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, he has fed me with ashes.
Cross References
Job 9:18For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.
Psalms 88:4I will + 88:4 Gr. prepare. establish your seed for ever, and build up your throne to all generations. Pause. 1
Isaiah 51:21Therefore hear, you afflicted one, and drunken, but not with wine;
Jeremiah 4:18Your ways and your devices have brought these things upon you; this is your wickedness, for it is bitter, for it has reached to your heart.
Jeremiah 9:15therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them with trouble and will cause them to drink water of gall:
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 →