Lamentations 3:19

Easy-to-Read Version

Remember, I am very sad, and I have no home. Remember the bitter poison that you gave me.

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.

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.

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

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 a man who has seen much trouble. God beat us with a stick, and I saw it happen. ² He led and brought me into darkness, not light. ³ He turned his hand against me. He did this again and again, all day. ⁴ He wore out my flesh and skin. He broke my bones. ⁵ He built up bitterness and trouble against me. He surrounded me with bitterness and trouble. ⁶ He put me in the dark, like someone who died long ago. ⁷ He shut me in, so I could not get out. He put heavy chains on me. ⁸ Even when I cry out and ask for help, he does not listen to my prayer. ⁹ He has blocked up my path with stones. He has made my path crooked. ¹⁰ He is like a bear about to attack me, like a lion that is in a hiding place.

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
The man said, "The woman you put here with me gave me fruit from that tree. So I ate it."

Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What have you done?" She said, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."

Genesis 3:16
Then God said to the woman, "I will cause you to have much trouble when you are pregnant. And when you give birth to children, you will have much pain. You will want your husband very much, but he will rule over you."

Genesis 3:21
The Lord God used animal skins and made some clothes for the man and his wife. Then he put the clothes on them.

Genesis 3:22
The Lord God said, "Look, the man has become like us—he knows about good and evil. And now the man might take the fruit from the tree of life. If the man eats that fruit, he will live forever."

Genesis 18:27
Then Abraham said, "Compared to you, Lord, I am only dust and ashes. But let me bother you again and ask you this question.

Genesis 23:4
"I am only a foreigner staying in your country. I have no place to bury my wife. Please give me some land so that I can bury her."

Job 1:21
and said, "When I was born into this world, I was naked and had nothing. When I die and leave this world, I will be naked and have nothing. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Praise the name of the Lord !"

Job 19:26
After I leave my body and my skin has been destroyed, I know I will still see God.

Job 21:26
In the end, both of these people will lie together in the dirt. The worms will cover them both.

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).