Lamentations 3:15

Modern

He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

Traditional

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

Literal

He has filled me with bitterness; He has made me drink wormwood.

Latin

Replevit me amaritudinibus; inebriavit me absinthio.

Hebrew

English

He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

The author speaks of the suffering of Judah and Jerusalem as his own.

In this chapter, the author mourns what has happened (Lamentations 3:1–20, 48–54). In this chapter, the author mourns what has happened (Lamentations 3:21–25). He explains how God’s people should respond (Lamentations 3:26–47). Finally, he calls out to the Lord in prayer (Lamentations 3:55–66).

Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”
Psalm 60:3
You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.
Job 9:18
He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
Ruth 1:20
“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
Jeremiah 25:27
“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’
Isaiah 51:17–22
Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs—the cup that makes men stagger.
Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
Jeremiah 25:15–18
This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.