Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He hath filled me with bitterness, and given me wormwood to drink.
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.
International Standard Version
He has filled me with bitterness, making me drink 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.
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 am laughed to scorn of all my people; they make songs upon me all the day long. 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, and given me wormwood to drink. 16 {Vav} He hath smitten my teeth in pieces, and rolled me in the dust.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, "Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them gall to drink.
Ruth 1:20
But she said unto them, "Call me not Naomi: call me Mara, for the Almighty hath made me very bitter.
Job 9:18
He will not let my spirit be in rest, but filleth me with bitterness.
Psalm 60:3
Thou hast showed thy people heavy things; thou hast given us a drink of deadly wine.
Isaiah 51:17-22
Awake, awake, and stand up, O Jerusalem: thou that from the hand of the LORD, hast drunken out the cup of his wrath; thou that hast supped of and sucked out the slumbering cup to the bottom.
Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore thus sayeth 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 is the sickness of hypocrisy come into all the land."
Jeremiah 25:15-18
"For thus hath the LORD God of Israel spoken unto me, 'Take this wine cup of indignation from my hand, that thou mayest cause all the people, to whom I send thee, for to drink of it:
Jeremiah 25:27
'And say thou unto them: This is the commandment of the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Drink and be drunken, spew and fall, that ye never rise: and that through the sword which I will send among you.
Lamentations 3:19
{Zayin} O remember yet my misery and my trouble; the wormwood and the gall.