Lamentations 3:19

The NET Bible®

ז (Zayin)

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

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 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

א (Alef)

I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath. ² He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light. ³ He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long. ⁴

ב (Bet)

He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones. ⁵ He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship. ⁶ He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago. ⁷

ג (Gimel)

He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains. ⁸ Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer. ⁹ He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable. ¹⁰

ד (Dalet)

To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey.

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 whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it."

Genesis 3:13
So the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman replied, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate."

Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you."

Genesis 3:21
The Lord God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

Genesis 3:22
And the Lord God said, "Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

Genesis 18:27
Then Abraham asked, "Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord (although I am but dust and ashes),

Genesis 23:4
"I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead."

Job 1:21
He said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. May the name of the Lord be blessed!"

Job 19:26
And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,

Job 21:26
Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over 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).