Lamentations 3:15

New American Bible - revised edition

He has sated me with bitterness, filled me with wormwood.

Cross References

Job 9:18

He would not allow me to draw breath, but might fill me with bitter griefs.

Psalm 60:3

O God, you rejected us, broke our defenses; you were angry but now revive us.

Psalm 88:4

For my soul is filled with troubles; my life draws near to Sheol.

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts against the prophets: Look, I will give them wormwood to eat, and poisoned water to drink; For from Jerusalem’s prophets ungodliness has gone forth into the whole land.

Jeremiah 25:27

Tell them: Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink! Get drunk and vomit! Fall, never to rise, before the sword that I will send among you!

Jeremiah 4:18

Your conduct, your deeds, have done this to you; how bitter is this evil of yours, how it reaches to your very heart!

Jeremiah 9:14

therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: See now, I will give this people wormwood to eat and poisoned water to drink.

Jeremiah 9:15

I will scatter them among nations whom neither they nor their ancestors have known; I will send the sword to pursue them until I have completely destroyed them.

Lamentations 3:19

The thought of my wretched homelessness is wormwood and poison;

Ruth 1:20

But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi [‘Sweet’]. Call me Mara [‘Bitter’], for the Almighty has made my life very bitter.