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Lamentations 3:15
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Lamentations 3:15
15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
15†Hee hath filled me with bitternesse, hee hath made me drunken with wormewood.
- Heb. bitternesses.
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DEFINED WORDS
Lamentations 3:15
Made full; supplied with abundance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
bitterness
A bitter quality or taste; figuratively, severe grief, distress, resentment, or hostility.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Intoxicated with strong drink; overcome or affected as by intoxication, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The notably bitter plant called wormwood, used also as an image of bitterness, poison, or calamity.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study15Therefore 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.
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Open the full verse study17¶ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
18There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
19These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
20Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.
21¶ Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
22Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
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Open the full verse study15Therefore 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.
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Open the full verse study15¶ For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
16And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
17Then took I the cup at the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me:
18To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
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Open the full verse study27Therefore 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.
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Open the full verse study18He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
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Open the full verse study19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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Open the full verse study3Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
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Open the full verse study20And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
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