Lamentations 3:15

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

Cross References

Job 9:18

he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

Psalm 60:3

You have made your people suffer hard things; you have given us wine to drink that made us reel.

Psalm 88:4

I am counted among those who go down to the Pit; I am like those who have no help,

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: “I am going to make them eat wormwood, and give them poisoned water to drink; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”

Jeremiah 25:27

Then you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, get drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword that I am sending among you.

Jeremiah 4:18

Your ways and your doings have brought this upon you. This is your doom; how bitter it is! It has reached your very heart.”

Jeremiah 9:14

but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am feeding this people with wormwood, and giving them poisonous water to drink.

Lamentations 3:19

The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall!

Ruth 1:20

She said to them, “Call me no longer Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt bitterly with me.