Lamentations 3:15 BSB

Original language & word study

4 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הִשְׂבִּיעַ֥נִי	his.bi.'A.ni	he has surfeited me	H7646 →
בַמְּרוֹרִ֖ים	va.me.ro.Rim	with <the> bitter things	H4844 →
הִרְוַ֥נִי	hir.Va.ni	he has made drink me	H7301 →
לַעֲנָֽה׃ ס	la.'a.Nah	wormwood	H3939 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H7646hisbianihe has surfeited me97×

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 60:3
You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.
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 independent 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…
Through
Job 9:18
He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
leads to
- Job 7:19
  Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
Through
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.
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.
Through
Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
leads to
- Lamentations 3:5
  He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

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.Jeremiah 23:9As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, because of His holy words.1 Samuel 1:10In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.Job 9:18He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.Jeremiah 25:15–18This 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.Psalms 60:3You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.Isaiah 51:17–22Awake, 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.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.’Ruth 1:20“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.Jeremiah 23:15Therefore 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.”Jeremiah 25:16And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”Isaiah 63:6I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”Jeremiah 48:26“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.

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