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Lamentations 3:15
15God has caused my life to become a thing of pain. It is as if he filled a cup with a very bitter drink for me.
Lamentations 3:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
- New International Version (NIV)He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drink wormwood.
Context of Lamentations 3:15
13It was as if he shot me in the heart with his arrows. 14All the people see me and laugh. They even sing silly songs about me all the time. God has caused my life to become a thing of pain. It is as if he filled a cup with a very bitter drink for me. 16It is as if he caused me to eat small stones, so that the stones broke my teeth. Then he put me on the ground, and he pushed me down in the dirt. 17He has taken peace away from my mind. I cannot remember the happy days that I had before.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:15 word by word
הִשְׂבִּיעַ֥נִי בַמְּרוֹרִ֖ים הִרְוַ֥נִי לַעֲנָֽה׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Lamentations 3:15
- Lamentations 3:19Lord, please remember all my troubles, because I am sad. Remember that I am very lonely. My troubles are like poison for me.
- Ruth 1:20Naomi said to them, ‘Do not call me Naomi. Call me Mara, instead. The Almighty God has made my life very sad.
- Job 9:18He would not allow me to breathe quietly. Instead, he would make me very upset.
- Psalms 60:3You have given your people a time of difficult trouble. You have given us strong wine to drink, that has made us fall like drunk people.
- Isaiah 51:17Wake up, people in Jerusalem! Get ready! The Lord has been angry with you, and he has punished you. You had to receive all of his anger, like you were drinking strong wine from a cup. Now that you have drunk it all, you cannot stand up straight!
- Jeremiah 9:15So the Lord Almighty, Israel's God, says this: ‘I will punish my people with trouble and pain. I will give them food that is bitter. They will drink water that is poison.
- Jeremiah 23:15So I, the Lord Almighty, say this about these prophets: I will cause them to have much pain and trouble. They will eat bitter food. They will drink water that is poison. It is because of Jerusalem's prophets that people do wicked things everywhere in the land.’
- Jeremiah 25:15The Lord, Israel's God, said to me, ‘Take this cup from me. It is full of wine that shows my great anger. Take it to the nations where I send you. Make them drink this wine of punishment.
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15He hath filled me with bitterness - במרורים bimrorim, with bitternesses, bitter upon bitter. He hath made me drunken with wormwood - I have drunk the cup of misery till I am intoxicated with it. Almost in all countries, and in all languages, bitterness is a metaphor to express trouble and affliction. The reason is, there is nothing more disagreeable to the taste than the one; and nothing more distressing to the mind than the other. An Arabic poet…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10-18Verses 10-18 Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape. Lamentations 3:11 The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has made me turn aside from my path, but my flight was in vain, for springing upon me from His ambush lie has torn me in pieces.” Desolate - Or, astonied, stupefied that he cannot flee. The word is a favorite one with Jeremiah. Lamentations 3:12 This new…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-24The author speaks of the suffering of Judah and Jerusalem as his own.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-66La 3:1-66. Jeremiah proposes his own experience under afflictions, as an example as to how the Jews should behave under theirs, so as to have hope of a restoration; hence the change from singular to plural (La 3:22, 40-47). The stanzas consist of three lines, each of which begins with the same Hebrew letter. Aleph. 1-3. seen affliction--his own in the dungeon of Malchiah (Jr 38:6); that of his countrymen also in the siege. Both were types of that of…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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