Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
He has filled me with bitterness, making me drink wormwood.
New American Standard Bible
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
satiated me with wormwood.
A Conservative Version
He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with 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
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
14 I have become a laughingstock to all my people, the object of their taunts throughout the day. 15 He has filled me with bitterness, making me drink wormwood. 16 He broke my teeth on gravel, covering me with dust.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore, this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Look, I'll make these people eat wormwood and drink poisoned water.
Ruth 1:20
But Naomi replied, "Don't call me "Naomi'! Call me "Mara'! That's because the Almighty has dealt bitterly with me.
Job 9:18
He won't let me catch my breath; instead, he fills me with bitterness.
Psalm 60:3
You made your people go through hard times; you had us drink wine that makes us stagger.
Isaiah 51:17-22
"Awake, Awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the LORD's hand from the cup that is his anger. You have drunk to the dregs the cup that makes you stagger, and have drained it.
Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore, this is what the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies says about the prophets, "I'm about to make them eat wormwood and drink poisoned water, because godlessness has spread from the prophets of Jerusalem throughout the land."
Jeremiah 25:15-18
For this is what the LORD God of Israel says to me, "Take this cup of the wine of burning anger from my hand and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
Jeremiah 25:27
"You are to say to them, "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Drink, get drunk, and vomit! Fall down and don't get up because of the sword I'm sending among you."'
Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and homelessness wormwood and gall!