Lamentations 3:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ Remembering mine affliction and my misery, The wormwood and the gall.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ [O Lord] remember [earnestly] my affliction and my misery, my wandering and my outcast state, the wormwood and the gall.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ The memory of my suffering and homelessness is bitterness and poison.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ ZAIN. Remember my poverty and my transgression, the wormwood and the gall.

Lamentations 3:19 Cross References

Lamentations 3:15

He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:5

he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am feeding this people with wormwood and giving them poisonous water to drink.

Psalm 132:1

O Lord, remember in David’s favor all the hardships he endured;

Psalm 89:50

Remember, O Lord, how your servant is taunted, how I bear in my bosom the insults of the peoples,

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is— for what vanity you have created all mortals!

Job 7:7

“Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.

Nehemiah 9:32

“Now therefore, our God—the great and mighty and awesome God, keeping covenant and steadfast love—do not treat lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, upon our kings, our officials, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until today.

Jeremiah 8:14

Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink because we have sinned against the Lord.