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Lamentations 3:15
15He has filled me with bitterness and made me drink wormwood.
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 into my kidneys arrows from His quiver. 14I have become a laughing stock to all my people, their song all day long. He has filled me with bitterness and made me drink wormwood. 16He broke my teeth with gravel. He made me wallow in ashes. 17My soul has been deprived of shalom, I have forgotten goodness.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:15 word by word
הִשְׂבִּיעַ֥נִי בַמְּרוֹרִ֖ים הִרְוַ֥נִי לַעֲנָֽה׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:15
- Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction my homelessness, bitterness and gall.
- Ruth 1:20“Do not call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara—since Shaddai has made my life bitter.
- Job 9:18He does not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
- Psalms 60:3O God, You have spurned us. You have broken out against us. You have been angry. Turn back to us!
- Isaiah 51:17Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem! From Adonai’s hand you have drunk the cup of His fury, the chalice of reeling that you have drained to the dregs.
- Jeremiah 9:15I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will pursue them with the sword, until I have finished with them.”
- Jeremiah 23:15Therefore thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot concerning the prophets: “I myself will feed them wormwood and make them drink poisoned water. For from the prophets of Jerusalem pollution has spread into all the land.”
- Jeremiah 25:15For thus says Adonai, the God of Israel, to me: “Take this cup of the wine of fury from My hand, and make all the nations to whom I am sending you drink 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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