Lamentations 3:15

“He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.”

"He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood." - Lamentations 3:15
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What does Lamentations 3:15 mean?

Lamentations 3:15 in the King James Version of the Bible reads, "He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood." This verse is found in the book of Lamentations, which is a collection of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem and the suffering…

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The Bitter Cup: Finding Hope in Lamentations 3:15

In the book of Lamentations, we find a poignant expression of grief and despair that emerges from the heart of a people deeply affected by loss and destruction. The verse we focus on today, Lamentations 3:15, states, "He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken…

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A Prayer of Healing from Bitterness

O Lord, my God, I come before You today with a heart that seeks healing and a soul yearning for restoration. As I reflect on the weight of Lamentations 3:15, "He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood," I recognize the deep-seated pain and anguish…

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Lamentations 5:3 - "We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."
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Lamentations 3:47 - "Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction."
Lamentations 3:19 - "Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall."
Lamentations 3:34 - "To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,"
Lamentations 3:50 - "Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven."
Lamentations 3:37 - "¶ Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?"
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Lamentations 3:2 - "He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light."
Lamentations 3:21 - "This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope."
Lamentations 3:45 - "Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people."
Lamentations 3:49 - "Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,"
Lamentations 3:20 - "My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me."
Lamentations 3:35 - "To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,"
Lamentations 3:46 - "All our enemies have opened their mouths against us."
Lamentations 3:63 - "Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick."
Lamentations 3:33 - "For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men."
Lamentations 3:65 - "Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them."
Lamentations 3:66 - "Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD."
Lamentations 3:42 - "We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned."