New Living Translation
Lamentations 3:15
15He has filled me with bitterness and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink.
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
13He shot his arrows deep into my heart. 14My own people laugh at me. All day long they sing their mocking songs. He has filled me with bitterness and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink. 16He has made me chew on gravel. He has rolled me in the dust. 17Peace has been stripped away, and I have forgotten what prosperity is.
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הִשְׂבִּיעַ֥נִי בַמְּרוֹרִ֖ים הִרְוַ֥נִי לַעֲנָֽה׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:15
- Lamentations 3:19The thought of my suffering and homelessness is bitter beyond words.
- Ruth 1:20“Don’t call me Naomi,” she responded. “Instead, call me Mara, for the Almighty has made life very bitter for me.
- Job 9:18He will not let me catch my breath, but fills me instead with bitter sorrows.
- Psalms 60:3You have been very hard on us, making us drink wine that sent us reeling.
- Isaiah 51:17Wake up, wake up, O Jerusalem! You have drunk the cup of the Lord’s fury. You have drunk the cup of terror, tipping out its last drops.
- Jeremiah 9:15So now, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: Look! I will feed them with bitterness and give them poison to drink.
- Jeremiah 23:15Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them with bitterness and give them poison to drink. For it is because of Jerusalem’s prophets that wickedness has filled this land.”
- Jeremiah 25:15This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled to the brim with my anger, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
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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