He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.
Lamentations 3:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He hath filled me with bitterness, He hath made me drunken with wormwood. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He has filled me with bitterness; He has made me drink to excess and until drunken with wormwood [bitterness]. American Standard Version (1901) He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood. Common English Bible He saturated me with grief, made me choke on bitterness. Catholic Public Domain Version HE. He has filled me with bitterness; he has inebriated me with wormwood. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood. |
He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: Thou hast made us to drink the wine of staggering.
I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help:
Therefore thus saith 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 profaneness gone forth into all the land.
And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reacheth unto thine heart.
but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
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.
And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.