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Lamentations 3:15

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— He hath sated me with bitter things, hath drenched me with wormwood.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me [with] wormwood.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— He hath filled me with bitternes, & made me drunken with wormewood.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Hee hath filled me with bitternesse, hee hath made me drunken with wormewood.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with gall.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
He hath filled 7646
{7646} Prime
שָׂבַע
saba`
{saw-bah'}
A primitive root; to sate, that is, fill to satisfaction (literally or figuratively).
z8689
<8689> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 2675
me with bitterness, 4844
{4844} Prime
מְרֹר
m@ror
{mer-ore'}
From H4843; a bitter herb.
he hath made me drunken 7301
{7301} Prime
רָוָה
ravah
{raw-vaw'}
A primitive root; to slake the thirst (occasionally of other appetites).
z8689
<8689> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 2675
with wormwood. 3939
{3939} Prime
לַעֲנָה
la`anah
{lah-an-aw'}
From an unused root supposed to mean to curse; wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Lamentations 3:13-15.


Lamentations 3:15

_ _ wormwood — (Jeremiah 9:15). There it is regarded as food, namely, the leaves: here as drink, namely, the juice.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Lamentations 3:1-20.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Lamentations 3:15

Wormwood — With severe and bitter dispensations.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Lamentations 3:15

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with (f) wormwood.

(f) With great anguish and sorrow he has made me lose my sense.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
filled:

Lamentations 3:19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Ruth 1:20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
Job 9:18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Psalms 60:3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
Isaiah 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. ... Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God [that] pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, [even] the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
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.
Jeremiah 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.
Jeremiah 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. ... [To wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as [it is] this day;
Jeremiah 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.

bitterness:
Heb. bitternesses
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Ru 1:20. Jb 9:18. Ps 60:3. Is 51:17. Jr 9:15; 23:15; 25:15, 27. Lm 3:19.

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