Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Lamentations 3:15 in other translations
| BSB | He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood. |
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| WEB | He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood. |
| ASV | He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood. |
| YLT | He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me with wormwood. |
| DARBY | He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood. |
| BBE | He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure. |
| Webster | He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. |
What does Lamentations 3:15 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:10-15
10-13. (Job 10:16; Ho 13:7, 8).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:1-20
The faithful lament their calamities, and hope in God's mercies. Verses 1-20 The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an affliction that was misery itself; for sin makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup. The struggle between unbelief and faith is often very severe. But the…
Lamentations 3:15 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 3:15
- Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore 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.
- Lamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- Ruth 1:20
And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
- Jeremiah 25:15-18
For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. Then took I the cup at the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me: To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
- Isaiah 51:17-22
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out. There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up. These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God. …
- Psalms 60:3
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
- Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
- Jeremiah 25:27
Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
- Job 9:18
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
19; Ru 1:20; Job 9:18; Ps 60:3; Isa 51:17-22; Jer 9:15; 23:15
Jer 25:15-18,27
bitterness. Heb. bitternesses.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain
Context
- Lamentations 3:14
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
- Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
- Lamentations 3:16
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Lamentations 3:15 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Hartóme de amarguras, embriagóme de ajenjos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il m’a rassasié d’amertumes, il m’a abreuvé d’absinthe. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Mit Bitterkeiten hat er mich gesättigt, mit Wermut mich getränkt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Replevit me amaritudinibus; inebriavit me absinthio. |