Lamentations 3:15
He hath sated me with bitter things, hath drenched me with wormwood.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, their song all the day;
16And he hath crushed, with gravel-stones, my teeth, hath made me cower in ashes;
Cross References
Job 9:18He would not suffer me to recover my breath, for he would surfeit me with bitter things.
Psalms 88:4I am counted with them who descend into the pit, I have become as a man that is without help;
Isaiah 51:21Therefore, hear, I pray thee, this, thou humbled one,—And drunken but not with wine:—
Jeremiah 4:18Thine own way And thine own doings, Have done these things unto thee,—This thy wickedness, Surely it is bitter, Surely it hath reached unto thy heart.
Jeremiah 9:15Therefore, Thus saith Yahweh of hosts, The God of Israel, Behold me! Feeding them, even this people, with wormwood,—And I will cause them to drink, poisoned water;
Jeremiah 25:15For, thus, said Yahweh, God of Israel unto me, Take this cup of indignation wine out of my hand,—and cause all the nations unto whom I am sending 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 →