Lamentations 3:15 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 3:15

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

KJV

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WEB

He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated 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.

DBT

He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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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.
Psalms 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Proverbs 20:17
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Job 9:18
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

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He has filled me with bitterness, a bitter sense of his calamities." God has access to the spirit, and can so embitter that as thereby to embitter all the enjoyments; as, when the stomach is foul, whatever is eaten sours in it: " He has made me drunk with wormwood, so intoxicated me with the sense of my afflictions that I know not what to say or do.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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LAM 3:15PSA 60:3 JER 25:15
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
LAM 3:15PSA 60:3 ISA 51:17
LAM 3:15PSA 60:3 PSA 71:20
LAM 3:15PSA 60:3 ISA 51:22
LAM 3:15JOB 9:18 JOB 7:19
LAM 3:15JER 9:15 JER 8:14
LAM 3:15JER 9:15 PSA 80:5
LAM 3:15LAM 3:19 LAM 3:5

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