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Lam_3:15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Ver. 15. He hath filled me with bitterness.] Heb., Bitternesses: {a} alluding, as some think, to that ius seu embamma in quo intingebant agnum Paschalem, sauce of bitter herbs wherewith they did eat the Passover - the juice of them expressed - to mind them of the bitter afflictions which they suffered in Egypt.
He hath made me drunk with wormwood.] Or, Hensbane, or wolfsbane rather, succo cicutae.
{a} Exarescunt torrentes, metalla exhauriuntur, flumina deficiunt, prata item cum structibus, &c.