Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Cross-reference
Lamentations 3:19 repeats the wormwood and gall imagery, reinforcing the poet's bitter affliction.
Job 9:18 also says God 'fills me with bitterness'—an identical phrase describing undeserved suffering.
Isaiah 51:17-22 describes Jerusalem drinking the cup of the Lord's wrath, the same cup of staggering.
Jeremiah 9:15 directly states God will feed His people wormwood and poison water—the same judgment image.
Jeremiah 23:15 repeats the wormwood and poison water judgment, here specifically against false prophets.
Jeremiah 25:27 commands 'Drink, be drunk and vomit'—the same forced drunkenness as wormwood intoxication.
Jeremiah 25:16 uses the same cup-of-wrath imagery — drinking leads to staggering, just as being sated with wormwood.
Jeremiah 48:26 again portrays drunkenness from divine judgment on Moab — the same motif of being forced to drink bitterness.
Isaiah 63:6 shows God making nations drunk in his wrath — similar to being sated with wormwood, but on a national scale.
Ruth 1:20 uses 'bitter' (Mara) to describe Naomi's experience of divine affliction, echoing the same root word.
Psalm 60:3 speaks of God giving 'wine that staggers'—a parallel image of divinely induced drunkenness.
Jeremiah 25:15-18 depicts the cup of wrath that makes nations drunk, a parallel to being made drunk with wormwood.