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Lamentations 3

Lam. 3:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He hath filled
saba` (Hebrew #7646)
a primitive root; to sate, i.e. fill to satisfaction (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: have enough, fill (full, self, with), be (to the) full (of), have plenty of, be satiate, satisfy (with), suffice, be weary of.
Pronounce: saw-bah'
Origin: or sabeay {saw-bay'-ah}
me with νbitterness
mror (Hebrew #4844)
from 4843; a bitter herb
KJV usage: bitter(-ness).
Pronounce: mer-ore'
Origin: or mrowr {mer-ore'}
, he hath made me drunken
ravah (Hebrew #7301)
to slake the thirst (occasionally of other appetites)
KJV usage: bathe, make drunk, (take the) fill, satiate, (abundantly) satisfy, soak, water (abundantly).
Pronounce: raw-vaw'
Origin: a primitive root
with wormwood
la`anah (Hebrew #3939)
wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed)
KJV usage: hemlock, wormwood.
Pronounce: lah-an-aw'
Origin: from an unused root supposed to mean to curse
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bitternesses.

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Hemlock,
Wormwood

Cross References

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Lam. 3:19• 19Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall. (Lam. 3:19)
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Ruth 1:20• 20And she said to them, Call me not Naomi--call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. (Ruth 1:20)
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Job 9:18• 18He suffereth me not to take my breath, for he filleth me with bitternesses. (Job 9:18)
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Psa. 60:3• 3Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us to drink the wine of bewilderment. (Psa. 60:3)
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Isa. 51:17‑22• 17Arouse thyself, arouse thyself, stand up, Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his fury. Thou hast drunk, hast drained out the goblet-cup of bewilderment:
 18--there is none to guide her among all the children that she hath brought forth; neither is there any to take her by the hand of all the children that she hath brought up.
 19These two things are come unto thee; who will bemoan thee?--desolation and destruction, and famine and sword: how shall I comfort thee?
 20Thy children have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an oryx in a net: they are full of the fury of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.
 21Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
 22thus saith thy Lord, Jehovah, and thy God, who pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I take out of thy hand the cup of bewilderment, the goblet-cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: (Isa. 51:17‑22)
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Jer. 9:15• 15therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink, (Jer. 9:15)
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Jer. 23:15• 15Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. (Jer. 23:15)
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Jer. 25:15‑18,27• 15For thus hath Jehovah the God of Israel said unto me: Take the cup of the wine of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send thee to drink it.
 16And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
 17And I took the cup at Jehovah's hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Jehovah had sent me:
 18Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a waste, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
 27And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, and be drunken, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword that I will send among you. (Jer. 25:15‑18,27)
bitterness.
Heb. bitternesses.

J. N. Darby Translation

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He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.