Lamentations 3:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.

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  • Jer 9:15 : 15 Therefore thus says 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 says 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 profaneness has gone forth into all the land.
  • Jer 25:15-18 : 15 For thus says the LORD God of Israel to me; Take the wine cup of this fury at My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it. 16 And they shall drink, and stagger, and go mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. 17 Then I took the cup from the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the LORD had sent me: 18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
  • Jer 25:27 : 27 Therefore you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink, and be drunk, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
  • Lam 3:19 : 19 Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
  • Ruth 1:20 : 20 And she said to them, Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
  • Job 9:18 : 18 He will not allow me to regain my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
  • Ps 60:3 : 3 You have shown Your people hard things; You have made us drink the wine of astonishment.
  • Isa 51:17-22 : 17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, who have drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; you have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out. 18 There is none to guide her among all the sons she has brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand of all the sons she has raised. 19 These two things have come upon you; who shall feel sorry for you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you? 20 Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, like a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of your God. 21 Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunk, but not with wine: 22 Thus says your Lord, the LORD, your God who pleads the cause of his people, 'Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; you shall no more drink it again:

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