Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me [with] wormwood.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
In Context
14I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.
16And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.
Cross References
Job 9:18He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me with bitter things.
Psalms 88:4I have been reckoned with those going down [to] the pit, I have been as a man without strength.
Isaiah 51:21Therefore, hear, I pray thee, this, O afflicted and drunken one, and not with wine,
Jeremiah 4:18Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee, This [is] thy vexation, for [it is] bitter, For it hath struck unto thy heart.
Jeremiah 9:15Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing them — this people — to eat wormwood, And I have caused them to drink water of gall,
Jeremiah 25:15'For thus said Jehovah God of Israel unto me, Take the wine cup of this fury out of My hand, and thou hast caused all the nations to drink it unto whom I am sending thee;
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 →