Lamentations 3:15
Good News Translation
Bitter suffering is all he has given me for food and drink.

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

Contemporary English Version
God has turned my life sour.

New American Bible
He has sated me with bitterness, filled me with wormwood.

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

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

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Lamentations 3:19 Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall.

Ruth 1:20 But she said to them: Call me not Noemi (that is, beautiful,) but call me Mara (that is, bitter), for the Almighty hath quite filled me with bitterness.

Job 9:18 He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.

Psalm 60:3 Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us drink the wine of sorrow.

Isaiah 51:17-22 Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunk even to the bottom of the cup of dead sleep, and thou hast drunk even to the dregs. . . .

Jeremiah 9:15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Jeremiah 23:15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts to the prophets: Behold I will feed them with wormwood, and will give them gall to drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem corruption is gone forth into all the land.

Jeremiah 25:15-18,27 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take the cup of wine of this fury at my hand: and thou shalt make all the nations to drink thereof, into which I shall send thee. . . .

bitterness.

Context
Jeremiah's Afflictions
14He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long. 15He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.16Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Lamentations 3:19
Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall.

Lamentations 3:14
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