Lamentations 3:15

Israel's Affliction

¹⁴ I have become the laughingstock of all the peoples. I am their mocking song all the day. ¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drunk with wormwood.
¹⁶ He broke my teeth with crushed stones. I am bent low in the dust.

Cup of

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel says: 'Behold! I will feed this people with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.'

Ruth 1:20

She said: Do not call me Naomi (meaning pleasant). Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life bitter.

Job 9:18

He will not allow me to catch my breath. Yet he fills me with bitterness.

Psalm 60:3

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

Isaiah 51:17-22

Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath, you who have drained to its dregs the goblet that makes men stagger.

Jeremiah 23:15

This is what Jehovah of Hosts says about the prophets: I will give them wormwood to eat and poison to drink. The prophets of Jerusalem have spread godlessness throughout the land.

Jeremiah 25:15-18

This is what Jehovah the God of Israel said to me: 'Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my fury, and make all the nations to whom I am sending you drink from it.

Jeremiah 25:27

Jehovah said: 'Say to them, This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'Drink, get drunk, vomit, fall down, and do not get up because of the wars that I am going to send you.'

Lamentations 3:19

Remember my trouble and my wandering, the bitterroot and the poison.