Lamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations 3:19 in other translations
| BSB | Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall. |
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| WEB | Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness. |
| ASV | Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. |
| YLT | Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall! |
| DARBY | Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall. |
| BBE | Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison. |
| Webster | Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. |
What does Lamentations 3:19 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:19-21
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:1-20
The faithful lament their calamities, and hope in God's mercies. Verses 1-20 The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an affliction that was misery itself; for sin makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup. The struggle between unbelief and faith is often very severe. But the…
Lamentations 3:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 3:19
- Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
- Lamentations 3:5
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
- Job 7:7
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
- Psalms 89:50
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
- Psalms 132:1
A Song of degrees. Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:
- Nehemiah 9:32
Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
- Psalms 89:47
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
- Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
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Context
- Lamentations 3:18
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:
- Lamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- Lamentations 3:20
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Lamentations 3:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Acuérdate de mi aflicción y de mi abatimiento, del ajenjo y de la hiel. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Souviens-toi de mon affliction, et de mon bannissement, de l’absinthe et du fiel. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Gedenke meines Elends und meines Umherirrens, des Wermuts und der Bitterkeit |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Recordare paupertatis, et transgressionis meæ, absinthii et fellis. |