Lamentations 3:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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 filled even to satiety, even as he had been made drunk with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:15

15 He hath filled me with bitterness,b he hath made me drunken with wormwood.