Charles Spurgeon Commentary Lamentations 3:15

"He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood." — Lamentations 3:15 (ASV)

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

What a strong expression the prophet uses! As a drunken man has lost his wits, and staggers, not knowing where, so too is a sinner when he really begins to taste the bitterness of sin. He does not act as if he were endowed with reason; despair and sorrow have driven his senses away.