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Lamentations 3:15

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

KJV

Replevit me amaritudinibus ; inebriavit me absinthio.

Vulgate

Οὐαύ. Ἐχόρτασέν με πικρίας, ἐμέθυσέν με χολῆς,

LXX

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.

ASV

הִשְׂבִּיעַ֥/נִי בַ/מְּרוֹרִ֖ים הִרְוַ֥/נִי לַעֲנָֽה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

4 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

יִֽשְׂבַּֽע
yshb'
verb · 96×
לַעֲנָֽה
l'nh
noun · 8×
מְרֹרִ֖ים
mrrym
noun · 3×
נִי
ny
verb · 14×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

What is the form of this sacrament? Is the form for the consecration of the bread appropriate? Is the form for the consecration of the blood appropriate? The power of each form The truth of the expression The comparison of the one form with the other Article 1. Whether this is the form of this sacrament: "This is My body," and "This is the chalice of My blood"? Objection 1. It …

Cross-references

  • Isa 51:20 — Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
  • Jer 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.
  • Jer 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.
  • Jer 23:9 — Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holine
  • Jer 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 fo
  • Job 9:18 — He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
  • Lam 3:19 — Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
  • Prov 20:17 — Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
  • Ps 88:3 — For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.