Lamentations 3:15
13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
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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 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.
Read in contextLamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Read in contextRuth 1:20
And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
Read in contextJeremiah 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.
Read in contextIsaiah 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.
Read in contextPsalms 60:3
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
Read in contextJeremiah 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.
Read in contextJeremiah 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.
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