Lamentations 3:15
He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
In Context
14I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
16He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.
Cross References
Job 9:18He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Psalms 88:4I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
Isaiah 51:21Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
Jeremiah 4:18“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
Jeremiah 9:15Therefore the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
Jeremiah 25:15For the LORD, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to 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 →