Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

He filled me with bitterness,
satiated me with wormwood.

International Standard Version

He has filled me with bitterness, making me drink wormwood.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

Darby Translation

He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.

Julia Smith Translation

He filled me with bitternesses, he gave me wormwood to drink

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me [with] wormwood.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He hath filled me with bitterness, and given me wormwood to drink.

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.

The Emphasized Bible

He hath sated me with bitter things, hath drenched me with wormwood.

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me with wormwood.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׂבע שׂבע 
Saba` 
Usage: 98

me with bitterness
מרור מרר 
M@ror 
Usage: 3

References

Context Readings

Israel's Affliction

14 I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. 15 He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood. 16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes.


Cross References

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore thus says 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.

Ruth 1:20

And she said to them, Call me not Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Job 9:18

He will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

Psalm 60:3

Thou have shown thy people hard things. Thou have made us to drink the wine of staggering.

Isaiah 51:17-22

Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, who have drunk at the hand of LORD the cup of his wrath. Thou have drunk the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore thus says 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 ungodliness has gone forth into all the land.

Jeremiah 25:15-18

For thus says LORD, the God of Israel, to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

Jeremiah 25:27

And thou shall say to them, Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

Lamentations 3:19

Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

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