Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
In Context
14I am become 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 help:
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; for it is bitter, for 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, the God of Israel, unto me: Take the cup of the wine 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 →