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Selected Verse: Lamentations 3:15 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| La 3:15 |
King James |
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| wormwood-- (Jer 9:15). There it is regarded as food, namely, the leaves: here as drink, namely, the juice. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Wormwood - With severe and bitter dispensations. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
He hath filled me with bitterness - במרורים bimrorim, with bitternesses, bitter upon bitter.
He hath made me drunken with wormwood - I have drunk the cup of misery till I am intoxicated with it. Almost in all countries, and in all languages, bitterness is a metaphor to express trouble and affliction. The reason is, there is nothing more disagreeable to the taste than the one; and nothing more distressing to the mind than the other. An Arabic poet. Amralkeis, one of the writers of the Moallakat, terms a man grievously afflicted a pounder of wormwood. |
15 Therefore thus saith the 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.