Lamentations 3:15

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

He gave me this poison to drink. He filled me with this bitter drink.

Cross References

Jeremiah 9:15

So the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says, “I will soon make the people of Judah eat bitter food and drink poisoned water.

Lamentations 3:19

Remember, I am very sad, and I have no home. Remember the bitter poison that you gave me.

Jeremiah 25:27

“Jeremiah, say to those nations, this is what the Lord All-Powerful, the God of the people of Israel, says: ‘Drink this cup of my anger. Get drunk from it and vomit. Fall down and don’t get up. Don’t get up because I am bringing wars against you.’

Jeremiah 23:15

So this is what the Lord All-Powerful says about those Jerusalem prophets: “I will make them suffer. Their food will be bitter, their water like poison. I will punish them because they started a spiritual sickness that spread through the whole country.”

Psalm 60:3

You have given your people many troubles. We are dizzy and fall down like drunks.

Job 9:18

He would not let me catch my breath again. He would just give me more trouble.

Ruth 1:20

But Naomi told the people, “Don’t call me Naomi; call me Marah. Use this name because God All-Powerful has made my life very sad.

Psalm 88:4

People already treat me like a dead man, like someone too weak to live.

Jeremiah 4:18

“The way you lived and the things you did brought this trouble to you. It is your evil that made your life so hard. Your evil life brought the pain that hurts deep in your heart.”

Jeremiah 9:14

The people of Judah lived their own way. They were stubborn. They followed the false god Baal. Their fathers taught them to follow those false gods.”