Lamentations 3:19

Bible in Basic English

Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Remember my affliction and my homelessness,the wormwood and the poison.

Hebrew Names Version
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

King James Version
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

English Standard Version
Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!

New American Standard Bible
Remember my misery and my homelessness, the wormwood and bitterness.

New Century Version
Lord , remember my suffering and my misery, my sorrow and trouble.

Amplified Bible
Remember [O LORD] my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall (bitterness).

World English Bible
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Remembring mine affliction, & my mourning, the wormewood and the gall.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.

Legacy Standard Bible
Remember my affliction and my homelessness, the wormwood and gall.

Berean Standard Bible
Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Contemporary English Version
Just thinking of my troubles and my lonely wandering makes me miserable.

Complete Jewish Bible
Remember my utter misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Darby Translation
Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Easy-to-Read Version
Remember, I am very sad, and I have no home. Remember the bitter poison that you gave me.

George Lamsa Translation
Remember my affliction and my chastisement, the bitterness and the sorrow.

Good News Translation
The thought of my pain, my homelessness, is bitter poison.

Lexham English Bible
Remember my misery and bitterness, the wormwood and venom!

Literal Translation
Remember my affliction and my roaming, as wormwood and bitterness.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O remembre yet my mysery and my trouble, the wormwod and the gall.

American Standard Version
Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Remember mine affliction and mine anguish, the wormwood and the gall.

King James Version (1611)
Remembring mine affliction and my miserie, the wormewood & the gall.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
O remember yet my miserie and my trouble, the wormewood and the gall.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered;

English Revised Version
Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Zai. Haue thou mynde on my pouert and goyng ouer, and on wermod and galle.

Update Bible Version
Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Webster's Bible Translation
Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

New English Translation

ז (Zayin)

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

New King James Version
Remember my affliction and roaming, The wormwood and the gall.

New Living Translation
The thought of my suffering and homelessness is bitter beyond words.

New Life Bible
Remember my trouble and my traveling from place to place, the wormwood and bitter feelings.

New Revised Standard
The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Remember my humiliation and my fleeings, the wormwood and poison;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall.

Revised Standard Version
Remember my affliction and my bitterness, the wormwood and the gall!

Young's Literal Translation
Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!

THE MESSAGE
I'll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness, the taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed. I remember it all—oh, how well I remember— the feeling of hitting the bottom. But there's one other thing I remember, and remembering, I keep a grip on hope:

Contextual Overview

¹ I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath. ² By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light. ³ Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day. ⁴ My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken. ⁵ He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow. ⁶ He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead. ⁷ He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain. ⁸ Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out. ⁹ He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted. ¹⁰ He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Remembering: or, Remember, Nehemiah 9:32, Job 7:7, Psalms 89:47, Psalms 89:50, Psalms 132:1

the: Lamentations 3:5, Lamentations 3:15, Jeremiah 9:15

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 16:12 - General Job 9:18 - filleth me Job 21:6 - Even when Job 23:2 - my complaint Jeremiah 8:14 - water Jeremiah 23:15 - will Lamentations 5:1 - Remember Daniel 4:34 - I blessed Acts 8:23 - the gall Revelation 8:11 - Wormwood

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.

Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.

Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.

Genesis 3:21
And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.

Genesis 3:22
And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.

Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

Genesis 23:4
I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.

Job 1:21
With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

Job 19:26
And Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English. without my flesh I will see God;

Job 21:26
Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Remembering mine affliction and my misery,.... The miserable affliction of him and his people; the remembrance of which, and poring upon it continually, caused the despondency before expressed: though it may be rendered imperatively, "remember my affliction, and my misery" s; so the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions; and Aben Ezra observes, that the words may be considered as a request to God, and so they seem to be; the prophet, and the people he represents, were not so far gone into despair, as to cast off prayer before God; but once more looked up to him, beseeching that he would, in his great mercy and pity, remember them in their distressed condition, and deliver out of it; for none could do it but himself:

the wormwood and the gall; figurative expressions of bitter and grievous afflictions, Lamentations 3:5.

s זכר "recordare", Munster, Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Cocceius, Michealis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Remembering - Or, as in the margin. It is a prayer to Yahweh.

My misery - Or, “my” homelessness (Lamentations 1:7 note).