Lamentations 3:15
What meaning of the lamentations 3:15 in the Bible?
What does Lamentations 3:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"He hath filled me with bitterness,b he hath made me drunken with wormwood."
What does Lamentations 3:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"He hath filled me with bitterness,b he hath made me drunken with wormwood."
Verse 15. _HE HATH FILLED ME WITH BITTERNESS_] במרורים _bimrorim_, with bitternesses, bitter upon bitter. _HE HATH MADE ME DRUNKEN WITH WORMWOOD._] I have drunk the cup of misery till I am intoxicate...
Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape. Lamentations 3:11 The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has made me...
CHAPTER 3 THE PROPHET'S SUFFERING AND DISTRESS This chapter is intensely personal. None but Jeremiah could have written these wonderful expressions of sorrow, the sorrows of the people of God into wh...
LAMENTATIONS 3. THE THIRD LAMENT. Here it is the singer that comes chiefly to the front; whereas in Lamentations 3:1 it had been Zion, and in Lamentations 3:2 it was Yahweh. EV hardly puts Lamentation...
_wormwood_ See on Jeremiah 9:15; Jeremiah 23:15....
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR A SUFFERING PROPHET Lamentations 3:1-66 Again in chapter three the poet has adopted the acrostic style but in a slightly different form from that of the previous Chapter s. In C...
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. ARROWS - literally, sons of His quiver (cf. , "The arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit"). V...
ZION'S HOPE IN GOD'S MERCY This third poem is the most elaborate in structure and the most sublime in thought of all. The poet speaks not only for himself, but for the nation. The order of thought is...
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 3 JEREMIAH SPEAKS. In this chapter, the writer speaks on behalf of all God’s people. Much of what he says is true also of the troub...
BITTERNESS. — The Hebrew gives the plural, _bitternesses._ With these, the sorrows which are as the bitter herbs of life (the same word meets us in Exodus 12:8, and Numbers 9:11), the mourner had been...
הִשְׂבִּיעַ֥נִי בַ † מְּרֹורִ֖ים הִרְוַ֥נִי לַעֲנָֽה׃ ס...
THE MAN THAT HATH SEEN AFFLICTION Lamentations 3:1 WHETHER we regard it from a literary, a speculative, or a religious point of view, the third and central elegy cannot fail to strike us as by far th...
In this central and longest poem, Jeremiah identified himself completely with the experiences of his people. In the first movement, in language which throbs with pain, he described his own sorrows, re...
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with (f) wormwood. (f) With great anguish and sorrow he has made me lose my sense....
_Wormwood, or a bitter poisonous herb, chap. ix. 26., and Deuteronomy xxix. 18._...
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the...
Some render the last word “wormwood,” but this word seems not to me to suit the passage, for though wormwood is bitter, yet it is a wholesome herb. I therefore take it in this and like places for pois...
In chapter 3 we find the language of faith, of sorrowing faith, of the Spirit of Christ in the remnant, on the occasion of the judgment of Jerusalem in which God had dwelt. Before, the prophet (or the...
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...
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. Ver. 15. _He hath filled me with bitterness._] Heb., Bitternesses: _a_ alluding, as some think, to that _ius seu embamma in q...
_I was a derision to all my people_ To all the wicked among them, who made themselves merry with the prophet's griefs and the public judgments; _and their song all the day_ Hebrew, נגינתם, their instr...
A LAMENT OVER GRIEVOUS SUFFERINGS...
BITTERNESS: _ Heb._ bitternesses...
1-20 The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an afflictio...
That is, he hath filled me with severe and bitter dispensations. WORMWOOD is a bitter herb, but it is also a wholesome herb, and therefore some think that the Hebrew word should rather be translated _...
Lamentations 3:15 filled H7646 (H8689) bitterness H4844 drink H7301 (H8689) wormwood H3939 filled - Lamentations 3:19; Ruth 1:20; Job 9:18; Psalms 60:3; Isaiah 51:17-22;...
IN HIS INITIAL DESPAIR THE PROPHET BEWAILS HIS OWN SAD CONDITION (LAMENTATIONS 3:1). In this section God is simply spoken of as ‘He', the only mention of His Name being in Lamentations 3:18 where the...
I am about to read a portion of Holy Scripture which may seem very strange to some of you, but it belongs to a part of the congregation, and I hope it may be the means of giving them comfort. I read i...
CONTENTS: Complaint of God's displeasure and comfort to God's people. Appeal to God's justice against persecutors. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Bad as things may be, it is owing to the mer...
The Metre changes here. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet, twenty two in number, begin three hemistichs, which make sixty six verses. It would look better, and read more poetically, if the hemistichs...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 3:1 I Am the Man Who Has Seen Affliction. Chapter Lamentations 3:1 has one speaker, a man who has endured suffering, experienced God’s faithfulness (vv. Lamentations...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 3:14. The figure is hardly changed. Perhaps A LAUGHING-STOCK TO ALL MY PEOPLE, THEIR SONG ALL THE DAY, may be regarded as the shaft which went to the quick. Jeremiah c...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 3:1 MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH THAT OF THE NATION; OR PERHAPS BY THE NATION PERSONIFIED (see Introduction). LAMENTATIONS 3:1 SEEN...
In this third lamentation he begins from the depth of depression and despair. He begins with hopelessness, and hopelessness is always the experience behind depression. Depression is the loss of hope,...
Isaiah 51:17; Jeremiah 23:15; Jeremiah 25:15; Jeremiah 25:27; Jeremiah 9:15; Job 9:18; Lamentations 3:19; Psalms 60:3; Ruth 1:20...
Wormwood — With severe and bitter dispensations....