Lamentations 3:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.”
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BSBPD
“He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me <FI>with<Fi> wormwood.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:15 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ruth 1:20“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
- Job 9:18He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
- Psalms 60:3You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.
- Psalms 88:4I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
- Isaiah 51:17Awake, 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.
- Isaiah 51:21Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.
- Isaiah 51:22Thus 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 never drink again.
- Jeremiah 4:18“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
- Jeremiah 9:14Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
- 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 23:15Therefore 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 25:15This 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.
- 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.’
- Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
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