Lamentations 3:15
in Lamentations 3He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
BSB
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ASV
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
KJV
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
3 notes on this verseHe hath filled me with bitterness,.... Or "with bitternesses" (m); instead of food, bitter herbs; the allusion perhaps is to the bitter herbs eaten at the passover, and signify bitter afflictions, sore calamities, of which the prophet and his people had their fill.
This site's exposition
I was a derision to all my people
on Lamentations 3:14-18
Public shame joins private pain, I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day, the sufferer's grief made into other people's entertainment. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood gives the affliction a taste, the same wormwood the Law names as the fruit of turning from the covenant, a word the bench hears chosen deliberately. The unit ends at its lowest point, my strength and my hope is perished from the Lord, hope named as gone in the man's own words, the floor the chapter's turn will rise from.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
He 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. Amralkeis, one of the writers of the Moallakat, terms a man grievously afflicted a pounder of wormwood.
The words behind it
4 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הִשְׂבִּיעַ֥נִי | hisbiani | he has surfeited me | H7646 → | 97 times |
| בַמְּרוֹרִ֖ים | vamerorim | with <the> bitter things | H4844 → | |
| הִרְוַ֥נִי | hirvani | he has made drink me | H7301 → | |
| לַעֲנָֽה׃ ס | laanah | wormwood | H3939 → |
הִשְׂבִּיעַ֥נִיhe has surfeited me
hisbianiH7646 →97 times
בַמְּרוֹרִ֖יםwith <the> bitter things
vamerorimH4844 →
הִרְוַ֥נִיhe has made drink me
hirvaniH7301 →
לַעֲנָֽה׃ סwormwood
laanahH3939 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 60:3You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 25:15
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…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 51:17
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…
- Psalms 71:20
Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
- Isaiah 51:22
Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of staggering. From that goblet, the cup of My fury, you will…
- Jeremiah 25:15
Through
Job 9:18He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
it leads to
- Job 7:19
Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
- Job 7:19
Through
Jeremiah 9:15Therefore 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.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 8:14
Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink,…
- Psalms 80:5
You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
- Jeremiah 8:14
Through
Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
it leads to
- Lamentations 3:5
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
- Lamentations 3:5
Where this verse is studied
2 studies on this verse
On Lamentations 3:15
Great Is Thy Faithfulness: Lamentations 3:22–24 · MannaFest
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On Lamentations 3:15
The Weeping Prophet — the Confessions of Jeremiah
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About Lamentations
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.