Lamentations 3:19
in Lamentations 3Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
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ASV
Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
KJV
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
2 notes on this verseon Lamentations 3:19-20
It was an affliction that was misery itself. My affliction and my transgression (so some read it), my trouble and my sin that brought it upon me; this was the wormwood and the gall in the affliction and the misery. It is sin that makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup.
This site's exposition
Remembering mine affliction and my misery
on Lamentations 3:19-21
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall repeats the taste of the previous unit, memory at first only rehearsing the pain rather than relieving it. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me shows grief working its way down into humility before it becomes anything else. The turn arrives in one short sentence, this I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope, and the bench marks the pivot exactly here: something else is recalled to mind, unnamed until the next unit, hope following the recalling rather than replacing the grief that came before it.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| זְכָר־ | zekhor- | remember | H2142 → | 230 times |
| עָנְיִ֥י | ʾaneyi | affliction my | H6040 → | 36 times |
| וּמְרוּדִ֖י | umerudi | and homelessness my | H4788 → | |
| לַעֲנָ֥ה | laanah | wormwood | H3939 → | |
| וָרֹֽאשׁ׃ | varosh | and poison | H7219 → |
זְכָר־remember
zekhor-H2142 →230 times
עָנְיִ֥יaffliction my
ʾaneyiH6040 →36 times
וּמְרוּדִ֖יand homelessness my
umerudiH4788 →
לַעֲנָ֥הwormwood
laanahH3939 →
וָרֹֽאשׁ׃and poison
varoshH7219 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 9:15
Through
Psalms 132:1O LORD, remember on behalf of David all the hardships he endured,
it leads to
- Psalms 120:1
In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.
- Psalms 129:1
Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth— let Israel now declare—
- Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
- Psalms 120:1
Through
Psalms 89:50Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—
it leads to
- Psalms 74:22
Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.
- Psalms 74:18
Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
- Psalms 69:9
because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
- Psalms 74:22
Through
Psalms 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
it leads to
- Job 14:1
“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
- Job 14:1
Where this verse is studied
2 studies on this verse
On Lamentations 3:19
Great Is Thy Faithfulness: Lamentations 3:22–24 · MannaFest
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On Lamentations 3:19
The Weeping Prophet — the Confessions of Jeremiah
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About Lamentations
This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.