Lamentations 3:15

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He filled me with bitterness,satiated me with wormwood.

Hebrew Names Version
He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

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

English Standard Version
He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.

New American Standard Bible
He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drink plenty of wormwood.

New Century Version
The Lord filled me with misery; he made me drunk with suffering.

Amplified Bible
He has filled me with bitterness; He has made me drunk with wormwood (bitterness).

World English Bible
He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He hath filled me with bitternes, & made me drunken with wormewood.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.

Legacy Standard Bible
He has saturated me with bitterness;He has sated me with wormwood.

Berean Standard Bible
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

Contemporary English Version
God has turned my life sour.

Complete Jewish Bible
He has filled me with bitterness, sated me with wormwood.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
He gave me this poison to drink. He filled me with this bitter drink.

George Lamsa Translation
He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.

Good News Translation
Bitter suffering is all he has given me for food and drink.

Lexham English Bible
He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with wormwood.

Literal Translation
He has filled me with bitterness and made me drunk with wormwood.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He hath fylled me with bytternesse, & geuen me wormwod to drynke.

American Standard Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.

Bible in Basic English
He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He hath filled me with bitterness, He hath sated me with wormwood.

King James Version (1611)
Hee hath filled me with bitternesse, hee hath made me drunken with wormewood.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He hath filled me with bitternesse, and geuen me wormewood to drinke.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with gall.

English Revised Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He. He fillide me with bitternesses; he gretli fillide me with wermod.

Update Bible Version
He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

Webster's Bible Translation
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

New English Translation
He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.

New King James Version
He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drink wormwood.

New Living Translation
He has filled me with bitterness and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink.

New Life Bible
He has filled me with bitter feelings. He has made me drunk with wormwood.

New Revised Standard
He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He hath sated me with bitter things, hath drenched me with wormwood.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.

Revised Standard Version
He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

Young's Literal Translation
He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me [with] wormwood.

Contextual Overview

¹ I'm the man who has seen trouble, trouble coming from the lash of God 's anger. He took me by the hand and walked me into pitch-black darkness. Yes, he's given me the back of his hand over and over and over again. ⁴He turned me into a scarecrow of skin and bones, then broke the bones. He hemmed me in, ganged up on me, poured on the trouble and hard times. He locked me up in deep darkness, like a corpse nailed inside a coffin. ⁷He shuts me in so I'll never get out, manacles my hands, shackles my feet. Even when I cry out and plead for help, he locks up my prayers and throws away the key. He sets up blockades with quarried limestone. He's got me cornered. ¹⁰He's a prowling bear tracking me down, a lion in hiding ready to pounce. He knocked me from the path and ripped me to pieces. When he finished, there was nothing left of me. He took out his bow and arrows and used me for target practice. ¹³He shot me in the stomach with arrows from his quiver. Everyone took me for a joke, made me the butt of their mocking ballads. He forced rotten, stinking food down my throat, bloated me with vile drinks. ¹⁶He ground my face into the gravel. He pounded me into the mud. I gave up on life altogether. I've forgotten what the good life is like. I said to myself, "This is it. I'm finished. God is a lost cause." ¹⁹I'll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness, the taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed. I remember it all—oh, how well I remember— the feeling of hitting the bottom. But there's one other thing I remember, and remembering, I keep a grip on hope:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

filled: Lamentations 3:19, Ruth 1:20, Job 9:18, Psalms 60:3, Isaiah 51:17-22, Jeremiah 9:15, Jeremiah 23:15, Jeremiah 25:15-18, Jeremiah 25:27

bitterness: Heb. bitternesses

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:10 - in bitterness of soul Psalms 88:3 - soul Psalms 102:9 - I Have Proverbs 20:17 - his Isaiah 51:20 - full Isaiah 63:6 - make Jeremiah 23:9 - like a drunken Jeremiah 25:16 - General Jeremiah 48:26 - ye him

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
The serpent was clever, more clever than any wild animal God had made. He spoke to the Woman: "Do I understand that God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden?"

Genesis 3:4
The serpent told the Woman, "You won't die. God knows that the moment you eat from that tree, you'll see what's really going on. You'll be just like God, knowing everything, ranging all the way from good to evil."

Genesis 3:6
When the Woman saw that the tree looked like good eating and realized what she would get out of it—she'd know everything!—she took and ate the fruit and then gave some to her husband, and he ate.

Genesis 3:7
Immediately the two of them did "see what's really going on"—saw themselves naked! They sewed fig leaves together as makeshift clothes for themselves.

Genesis 3:8
When they heard the sound of God strolling in the garden in the evening breeze, the Man and his Wife hid in the trees of the garden, hid from God.

Genesis 3:10
He said, "I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked. And I hid."

Genesis 3:13
"The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate."

Genesis 3:14
God told the serpent: "Because you've done this, you're cursed, cursed beyond all cattle and wild animals, Cursed to slink on your belly and eat dirt all your life. I'm declaring war between you and the Woman, between your offspring and hers. He'll wound your head, you'll wound his heel."

Psalms 132:11
God gave David his word, he won't back out on this promise: "One of your sons I will set on your throne; If your sons stay true to my Covenant and learn to live the way I teach them, Their sons will continue the line— always a son to sit on your throne. Yes—I, God , chose Zion, the place I wanted for my shrine; This will always be my home; this is what I want, and I'm here for good. I'll shower blessings on the pilgrims who come here, and give supper to those who arrive hungry; I'll dress my priests in salvation clothes; the holy people will sing their hearts out! Oh, I'll make the place radiant for David! I'll fill it with light for my anointed! I'll dress his enemies in dirty rags, but I'll make his crown sparkle with splendor."

Matthew 3:7
When John realized that a lot of Pharisees and Sadducees were showing up for a baptismal experience because it was becoming the popular thing to do, he exploded: "Brood of snakes! What do you think you're doing slithering down here to the river? Do you think a little water on your snakeskins is going to make any difference? It's your life that must change, not your skin! And don't think you can pull rank by claiming Abraham as father. Being a descendant of Abraham is neither here nor there. Descendants of Abraham are a dime a dozen. What counts is your life. Is it green and blossoming? Because if it's deadwood, it goes on the fire.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He hath filled me with bitterness,.... Or "with bitternesses" m; instead of food, bitter herbs; the allusion perhaps is to the bitter herbs eaten at the passover, and signify bitter afflictions, sore calamities, of which the prophet and his people had their fill. The Targum is,

"with the gall of serpents;''

see Job 20:14;

he hath made me drunken with wormwood; with wormwood drink; but this herb being a wholesome one, though bitter, some think that henbane, or wolfsbane, is rather meant, which is of a poisonous and intoxicating nature; it is no unusual thing for persons to be represented as drunk with affliction, Isaiah 51:17.

m במרורים "amaritudinibus", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Michaelis, "amaroribus", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape.

Lamentations 3:11

The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has made me turn aside from my path, but my flight was in vain, for springing upon me from His ambush lie has torn me in pieces.”

Desolate - Or, astonied, stupefied that he cannot flee. The word is a favorite one with Jeremiah.

Lamentations 3:12

This new simile arises out of the former one, the idea of a hunter being suggested by that of the bear and lion. When the hunter comes, it is not to save him.

Lamentations 3:14

Metaphor is dropped, and Jeremiah shows the real nature of the arrows which rankled in him so deeply.

Lamentations 3:15

“He hath” filled me to the full with bitterness, i. e. bitter sorrows Job 9:18.

Lamentations 3:16

Broken my teeth with gravel stones - His bread was so filled with grit that in eating it his teeth were broken.

Lamentations 3:17

Prosperity - literally, as in the margin, i. e. I forgot what good was, I lost the very idea of what it meant.

Lamentations 3:18

The prophet reaches the verge of despair. But by struggling against it he reaches at length firm ground.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. He hath filled me with bitterness — במרורים bimrorim, with bitternesses, bitter upon bitter.

He hath made me drunken with wormwood. — I have drunk the cup of misery till I am intoxicated with it. Almost in all countries, and in all languages, bitterness is a metaphor to express trouble and affliction. The reason is, there is nothing more disagreeable to the taste than the one; and nothing more distressing to the mind than the other. An Arabic poet. Amralkeis, one of the writers of the Moallakat, terms a man grievously afflicted [Arabic] a pounder of wormwood.