Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
King James Version
In Context
14I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Cross References
Job 9:18He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Psalms 88:4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Isaiah 51:21Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
Jeremiah 4:18Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
Jeremiah 9:15Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Jeremiah 25:15For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, 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 →