KJV King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
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Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
WEB World English Bible
He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
ASV American Standard Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me with wormwood.
Surrounding context — Lamentations 3
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
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.
15 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.
18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
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Jeremiah 9:15Therefore 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.Jeremiah 23:15Therefore 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.Isaiah 51:17-22Awake, 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.Job 9:18He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.Jeremiah 25:15-18For 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.Psalm 60:3Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.Jeremiah 25:27Therefore 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.Ruth 1:20And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.Lamentations 3:19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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