Lamentations 3:19

New English Translation

Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:32

“So now, our God – the great, powerful, and awesome God, who keeps covenant fidelity – do not regard as inconsequential all the hardship that has befallen us – our kings, our leaders, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people – from the days of the kings of Assyria until this very day!

Job 7:7

Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

Psalm 132:1

O Lord, for David’s sake remember all his strenuous effort,

Psalm 89:47

Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

Psalm 89:50

Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people!

Jeremiah 8:14

The people say, “Why are we just sitting here? Let us gather together inside the fortified cities. Let us at least die there fighting, since the Lord our God has condemned us to die. He has condemned us to drink the poison waters of judgment because we have sinned against him.

Jeremiah 9:15

So then, listen to what I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all, say. ‘I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.

Lamentations 3:15

He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness. ו (Vav)

Lamentations 3:5

He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.