Lamentations 3:15
New International Version
He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink.

New Living Translation
He has filled me with bitterness and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink.

English Standard Version
He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.

Berean Standard Bible
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

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

New King James Version
He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drink wormwood.

New American Standard Bible
He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drink plenty of wormwood.

NASB 1995
He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.

NASB 1977
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.

Amplified Bible
He has filled me with bitterness; He has made me drunk with wormwood (bitterness).

Christian Standard Bible
He filled me with bitterness, satiated me with wormwood.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He filled me with bitterness, satiated me with wormwood.

American Standard Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.

Contemporary English Version
God has turned my life sour.

English Revised Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He has filled me with bitterness. He has made me drink wormwood.

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

International Standard Version
He has filled me with bitterness, making me drink wormwood.

Majority Standard Bible
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

NET Bible
He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.

New Heart English Bible
He has filled me with bitterness, he has given me in full measure wormwood.

Webster's Bible Translation
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

World English Bible
He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
He has filled me with bitter things, "" He has filled me [with] wormwood.

Young's Literal Translation
He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me with wormwood.

Smith's Literal Translation
He filled me with bitternesses, he gave me wormwood to drink.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.

Catholic Public Domain Version
HE. He has filled me with bitterness; he has inebriated me with wormwood.

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

New Revised Standard Version
He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
He has filled me with bitterness, and he made me drunk with wormwood
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
He hath filled me with bitterness, He hath sated me with wormwood.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with gall.

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Context
Jeremiah's Afflictions
14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long. 15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood. 16He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.…

Cross References
Job 9:18
He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.

Psalm 69:21
They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.

Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”

Ezekiel 23:31-34
Because you have followed the path of your sister, I will put her cup into your hand.’ / This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much. / You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria. ...

Isaiah 51:17
Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs—the cup that makes men stagger.

Isaiah 51:22
Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of staggering. From that goblet, the cup of My fury, you will never drink again.

Psalm 80:5
You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

Psalm 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

Revelation 8:11
The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter like wormwood oil, and many people died from the bitter waters.

Revelation 16:19
The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.

Matthew 27:34
they offered Him wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, He refused to drink it.

Mark 15:23
There they offered Him wine mixed with myrrh, but He did not take it.

Luke 22:42-44
“Father, if You are willing, take this cup from Me. Yet not My will, but Yours be done.” / Then an angel from heaven appeared to Him and strengthened Him. / And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.

John 18:11
“Put your sword back in its sheath!” Jesus said to Peter. “Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given Me?”


Treasury of Scripture

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

filled

Lamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Ruth 1:20
And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

Job 9:18
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

bitterness.

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He has filled me with bitterness
The phrase "He has filled me with bitterness" reflects a deep sense of anguish and sorrow. The Hebrew word for "bitterness" here is "מָרוֹר" (maror), which is often associated with the bitter herbs eaten during Passover, symbolizing the bitterness of slavery in Egypt. This connection underscores the profound suffering and affliction experienced by the speaker, traditionally understood to be the prophet Jeremiah. Historically, this bitterness can be seen as a representation of the destruction of Jerusalem and the subsequent exile, a period marked by immense grief and loss for the Israelites. Theologically, it serves as a reminder of the consequences of turning away from God, yet it also opens the door for repentance and restoration.

He has intoxicated me with wormwood
The term "intoxicated" in this context is derived from the Hebrew "שָׁכַר" (shakar), which means to be drunk or overwhelmed. This suggests a state of being overwhelmed by sorrow and despair, akin to being under the influence of a potent drink. "Wormwood," or "לַעֲנָה" (la'anah) in Hebrew, is a bitter plant often used in the Bible to symbolize judgment and calamity. In the ancient Near East, wormwood was known for its extreme bitterness and was sometimes used metaphorically to describe the bitterness of suffering and divine judgment. The use of "wormwood" here emphasizes the depth of the speaker's affliction, as if he is being forced to drink a cup of suffering. Scripturally, wormwood is mentioned in other parts of the Bible, such as in Deuteronomy 29:18 and Revelation 8:11, where it symbolizes the consequences of sin and the resulting divine judgment. This imagery serves as a powerful reminder of the bitterness of life apart from God's favor, yet it also points to the hope of redemption and healing through repentance and faith.

(15) Bitterness.--The Hebrew gives the plural, bitternesses. With these, the sorrows which are as the bitter herbs of life (the same word meets us in Exodus 12:8, and Numbers 9:11), the mourner had been filled even to satiety, even as he had been made drunk with wormwood.

Verse 15. - With bitterness; literally, with bitternesses; i.e. bitter troubles. A reminiscence of Job 9:18. With wormwood; i.e. with a drink of wormwood (comp. Jeremiah 9:15; Jeremiah 23:15). We are slightly reminded of Psalm 69:21, "They gave me gall for my meat."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He has filled
הִשְׂבִּיעַ֥נִי (hiś·bî·‘a·nî)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited

me with bitterness;
בַמְּרוֹרִ֖ים (ḇam·mə·rō·w·rîm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4844: Bitter thing, bitter herb

He has intoxicated me
הִרְוַ֥נִי (hir·wa·nî)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 7301: To be saturated, drink one's fill

with wormwood.
לַעֲנָֽה׃ (la·‘ă·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3939: Wormwood


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