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Literal Standard Version

Lamentations 3:19

Remember my affliction and my mourning, || Wormwood and gall!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Despondency;   Wormwood;   Thompson Chain Reference - Gall;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions Made Beneficial;   Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hemlock;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Providence of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gall;   Hemlock;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Poison;   Wormwood;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gall;   Lamentations, Book of;   Plants in the Bible;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Gall;   Lamentations, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Gall ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gall;   Hemlock;   Wormwood,;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Wormwood;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - All;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Gall;   Hemlock;   Wormwood;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gall;   Wormwood;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 17;  

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.
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[ALEPH-BET] I [am] the man [who] has seen affliction || By the rod of His wrath. 2He has led me, and causes to go [in] darkness, and without light. 3Surely against me He turns back, || He turns His hand all the day. 4He has worn out my flesh and my skin. He has broken my bones. 5He has built up against me, || And sets around poverty and weariness. 6In dark places He has caused me to dwell, || As the dead of old. 7He has hedged me in, and I do not go out, || He has made heavy my chain. 8Also when I call and cry out, || He has shut out my prayer. 9He has hedged my ways with hewn work, || My paths He has made crooked. 10A bear lying in wait He [is] to me, || A lion in secret hiding 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 says, "The woman whom You placed with me—she has given to me from the tree, and I eat."
Genesis 3:13
And YHWH God says to the woman, "What [is] this you have done?" And the woman says, "The serpent has caused me to forget, and I eat."
Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said, "Multiplying I multiply your sorrow and your conception; you will bear children in sorrow, and your desire [is] toward your Man [[or husband]], and He [[or he]] will rule over you."
Genesis 3:21
And YHWH God makes coats of skin [for] the man and his wife, and clothes them.
Genesis 3:22
And YHWH God says, "Behold, the man was as one of Us, as to the knowledge of good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand, and has also taken from the Tree of Life, and eaten, and lived for all time."
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answers and says, "Now behold, I have willed to speak to the Lord, and I [am] dust and ashes;
Genesis 23:4
"A sojourner and a settler I [am] with you; give to me a possession of a burying-place with you, and I bury my dead from before me."
Job 1:21
and he says, "I came forth naked from the womb of my mother, || And naked I return there. YHWH has given and YHWH has taken; Let the Name of YHWH be blessed."
Job 19:26
And after my skin has surrounded this [body], || Then from my flesh I see God—
Job 21:26
Together they lie down on the dust, || And the worm covers them over.

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).


 
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