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New Century Version

Lamentations 3:15

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Despondency;   Drunkenness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Wormwood;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bitter Herbs;   Lamentations, Book of;   Plants in the Bible;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Bitter Herbs;   Lamentations, Book of;   Wormwood;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Gall ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hemlock;   Wormwood,;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Wormwood;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Drunken;   Wormwood;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bitter Herbs;   Wormwood;   Wormwood, the Star;  

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.
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 am a man who has seen the suffering that comes from the rod of the Lord 's anger. 2 He led me into darkness, not light. 3 He turned his hand against me again and again, all day long. 4 He wore out my flesh and skin and broke my bones. 5 He surrounded me with sadness and attacked me with grief. 6 He made me sit in the dark, like those who have been dead a long time. 7 He shut me in so I could not get out; he put heavy chains on me. 8 I cry out and beg for help, but he ignores my prayer. 9 He blocked my way with a stone wall and led me in the wrong direction. 10 He is like a bear ready to attack me, like a lion in hiding.

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
Now the snake was the most clever of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day the snake said to the woman, "Did God really say that you must not eat fruit from any tree in the garden?"
Genesis 3:3
But God told us, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not even touch it, or you will die.'"
Genesis 3:4
But the snake said to the woman, "You will not die.
Genesis 3:6
The woman saw that the tree was beautiful, that its fruit was good to eat, and that it would make her wise. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of the fruit to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:7
Then, it was as if their eyes were opened. They realized they were naked, so they sewed fig leaves together and made something to cover themselves.
Genesis 3:8
Then they heard the Lord God walking in the garden during the cool part of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the Lord God among the trees in the garden.
Genesis 3:10
The man answered, "I heard you walking in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."
Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "How could you have done such a thing?" She answered, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."
Genesis 3:14
The Lord God said to the snake, "Because you did this, a curse will be put on you. You will be cursed as no other animal, tame or wild, will ever be. You will crawl on your stomach, and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:15
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your descendants and her descendants will be enemies. One of her descendants will crush your head, and you will bite his heel."

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.


 
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