Lamentaciones 3:15

15 El me ha llenado de amargura, me ha embriagado con ajenjo.

Lamentaciones 3:15 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:15

He hath filled me with bitterness
Or "with bitternesses" {m}; instead of food, bitter herbs; the allusion perhaps is to the bitter herbs eaten at the passover, and signify bitter afflictions, sore calamities, of which the prophet and his people had their fill. The Targum is,

``with the gall of serpents;''

see ( Job 20:14 ) ; he hath made me drunken with wormwood;
with wormwood drink; but this herb being a wholesome one, though bitter, some think that henbane, or wolfsbane, is rather meant, which is of a poisonous and intoxicating nature; it is no unusual thing for persons to be represented as drunk with affliction, ( Isaiah 51:17 Isaiah 51:21 ) ( Jeremiah 25:27 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (Myrwrmb) "amaritudinibus", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Michaelis, "amaroribus", Cocceius.

Lamentaciones 3:15 In-Context

13 Hizo que penetraran en mis entrañas las flechas de su aljaba.

14 He venido a ser objeto de burla de todo mi pueblo, su copla todo el día.

15 El me ha llenado de amargura, me ha embriagado con ajenjo.

16 Ha quebrado con guijarro mis dientes, ha hecho que me revuelque en el polvo.

17 Y mi alma ha sido privada de la paz, he olvidado la felicidad.