Lamentations 3:15

Bible in Basic English 1965

He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

Cross References

Job 9:18

He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.

Psalm 60:3

You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.

Psalm 88:4

I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

Jeremiah 23:15

So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.

Jeremiah 25:27

And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.

Jeremiah 4:18

Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

Jeremiah 9:14

But they have been walking in the pride of their hearts, going after the Baals, as their fathers gave them teaching.

Jeremiah 9:15

So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.

Lamentations 3:19

Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

Ruth 1:20

And she said to them, Do not let my name be Naomi, but Mara, for the Ruler of all has given me a bitter fate.