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Klagelieder 3:15

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15 Mit Bitterkeiten hat er mich gesättigt, mit Wermut mich getränkt.

Klagelieder 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 ) .
FOOTNOTES:

F13 (Myrwrmb) "amaritudinibus", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Michaelis, "amaroribus", Cocceius.
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Klagelieder 3:15 In-Context

13 Er ließ in meine Nieren dringen die Söhne seines Köchers.
14 Meinem ganzen Volke bin ich zum Gelächter geworden, bin ihr Saitenspiel den ganzen Tag.
15 Mit Bitterkeiten hat er mich gesättigt, mit Wermut mich getränkt.
16 Und er hat mit Kies meine Zähne zermalmt, hat mich niedergedrückt in die Asche.
17 Und du verstießest meine Seele vom Frieden, ich habe des Guten vergessen.
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