Lamentations 3:15 meaning and explanation

He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:15, Berean Standard Bible

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The speaker is the man of verse 1, voicing Jerusalem's suffering after the city's fall to Babylon in 586 BC. He describes God as the one who fills him with bitterness and makes him drunk on wormwood, a plant associated with bitter, poisonous taste.

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