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The Book of Lamentations, Chapter 3, Verse 15

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I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day.
King James Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
American Standard Version
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
New English Translation
He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.
World English Bible
He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
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He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
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And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
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And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
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Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
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This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
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[It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
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[They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.
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The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
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The LORD [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.