John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness ,.... Or "with bitternesses" F13 במרורים "amaritudinibus", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Michaelis, "amaroribus", Cocceius. ; 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;... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Lamentations 3:1-20
The title of the Ps. 102:1-28 might very fitly be prefixed to this chapter?The prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and pours out his complaint before the Lord; for it is very feelingly and fluently that the complaint is here poured out. Let us observe the particulars of it. The prophet complains, 1. That God is angry. This gives both birth and bitterness to the affliction (Lam. 3:1): I am the man, the remarkable man, that has seen affliction, and has felt it sensibly, by the rod... read more