Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
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- Jer 9:15 : 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 23:15 : 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.
- Jer 25:15-18 : 15 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. 16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. 17 Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me: 18 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;
- Jer 25:27 : 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.
- Lam 3:19 : 19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- Ruth 1:20 : 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 : 18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
- Ps 60:3 : 3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
- Isa 51:17-22 : 17 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. 18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up. 19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? 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. 21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: 22 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:
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3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
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11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
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14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
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15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
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21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
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20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
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3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
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15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
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6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
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4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
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23 And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.
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16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
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11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
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7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
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15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
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8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
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9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.