Lamentations 3:15

Israel's Affliction

¹⁴ I am a laughingstock to all my people,
mocked by their songs all day long.
¹⁵ He filled me with bitterness,
satiated me with wormwood. ¹⁶ ו VavHe ground my teeth on gravel
and made me cower in the dust.

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Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to feed this people wormwood and give them poisonous water to drink.

Ruth 1:20

“Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara,” she answered, “for the Almighty has made me very bitter.

Job 9:18

He doesn’t let me catch my breath
but soaks me with bitter experiences.

Psalm 60:3

You have made Your people suffer hardship;
You have given us wine to drink
that made us stagger.

Isaiah 51:17-22

Wake yourself, wake yourself up!
Stand up, Jerusalem,
you who have drunk the cup of His fury
from the hand of the Lord;
you who have drunk the goblet to the dregs—
the cup that causes people to stagger.

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says concerning the prophets:

I am about to feed them wormwood
and give them poisoned water to drink,
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
ungodliness has spread throughout the land.

Jeremiah 25:15-18

This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and make all the nations I am sending you to, drink from it.

Jeremiah 25:27

“Then you are to say to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, as a result of the sword I am sending among you.

Lamentations 3:19

ז ZayinRemember my affliction and my homelessness,
the wormwood and the poison.