Lamentations 3:15
He filled me with bitterness and forced me to drink wormwood. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
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, the object of their taunting all day long. 1
16He has made my teeth grind with gravel, and he made me cower in the ashes. 1
Cross References
Job 9:18He does not allow me to regain my breath; 1 but he fills me with bitterness. 1
Psalms 88:4People treat me like those who go down into the pit; 1 I am a man with no strength. 1
Isaiah 51:21But now hear this, you oppressed one and drunken one, but not drunk with wine: 1
Jeremiah 4:18and your conduct and your deeds have done these things to you. This will be your punishment. How terrible it will be! It will strike your very heart.
Jeremiah 9:15Therefore Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, says this, 'See, I am about to make this people eat wormwood and drink poisonous water.
Jeremiah 25:15For Yahweh, God of Israel, said this to me, “Take this cup of the wine of fury from my hand and make all the nations to which I am sending you drink 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 →