Lamentations 3:15

3:15 He has given me my fill of bitter herbs

and made me drunk with bitterness. ¹ 

Lamentations 3:30

3:30 Let him offer his cheek to the one who hits him; ² 

let him have his fill of insults.

Lamentations 5:6

5:6 We have submitted ³  to Egypt and Assyria

in order to buy food to eat. ⁴ 

[3:15]  ¹ tn Heb “wormwood” or “bitterness” (BDB 542 s.v. לַעֲנָה; HALOT 533 s.v. לַעֲנָה).

[3:30]  ² tn Heb “to the smiter.”

[5:6]  ³ tn Heb “we have given the hand”; cf. NRSV “We have made a pact.” This is a Semitic idiom meaning “to make a treaty with” someone, placing oneself in a subservient position as vassal. The prophets criticized these treaties.

[5:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “bread.” The term “bread” is a synecdoche of specific (= bread) for the general (= food).