Lamentations 3:15
13 He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
14 I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
16 He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
17 My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
- KJV
- He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
- 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.
- DARBY
- He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.
- BLB
- He has filled me with bitterness; He has made me drink wormwood.
- ÅB
- Han mettet meg med bitre urter, han gav meg rikelig malurt å drikke.
- OTB
- Han har fylt meg med bitterhet og gitt meg malurt å drikke.
- B1930
- Han mettet mig med bitre urter, han gav mig rikelig malurt å drikke.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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.
Read in contextLamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
Read in contextRuth 1:20
“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
Read in contextJeremiah 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.
Read in contextIsaiah 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.
Read in contextPsalms 60:3
You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.
Read in contextJeremiah 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.”
Read in contextJeremiah 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.’
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