Lamentations 3:15

15 The LORD has made my life bitter. He has made me suffer bitterly.

Lamentations 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.

Lamentations 3:15 In-Context

13 The arrows from his bag have gone through my heart.
14 My people laugh at me all the time. They sing and make fun of me all day long.
15 The LORD has made my life bitter. He has made me suffer bitterly.
16 He made me chew stones that broke my teeth. He has walked all over me in the dust.
17 I have lost all hope of ever having any peace. I've forgotten what good times are like.
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