Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitternes, and made me drunken with wormewood.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
In Context
14I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
16He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes.
Cross References
Job 9:18He wil not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.
Psalms 88:4I am counted among them that go downe vnto the pit, and am as a man without strength:
Isaiah 51:21Therefore heare nowe this, thou miserable and drunken, but not with wine.
Jeremiah 4:18Thy wayes and thine inuentions haue procured thee these things, such is thy wickednesse: therefore it shall be bitter, therefore it shall perce vnto thine heart.
Jeremiah 9:15Therefore thus sayth the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feede this people with wormewood, and giue them waters of gall to drinke:
Jeremiah 25:15For thus hath the Lord God of Israel spoken vnto me, Take the cuppe of wine of this mine indignation at mine hand, and cause all the nations, to whome I sende thee, to drinke 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 →