Lamentations 3:19 BSB

Original language & word study

5 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
זְכָר־	ze.khor-	remember	H2142 →
עָנְיִ֥י	'a.ne.Yi	affliction my	H6040 →
וּמְרוּדִ֖י	u.me.ru.Di	and homelessness my	H4788 →
לַעֲנָ֥ה	la.'a.Nah	wormwood	H3939 →
וָרֹֽאשׁ׃	va.Rosh	and poison	H7219 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Lamentations 3:15
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
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 independent paths from here.
Through
Psalms 132:1
O LORD, remember on behalf of David all the hardships he endured,
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!
Through
Psalms 89:50
Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—
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.
Through
Psalms 89:47
Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
leads to
- Job 14:1
  “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.Lamentations 3:5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.Revelation 8:11The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter like wormwood oil, and many people died from the bitter waters.Jeremiah 8:14Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.Lamentations 5:1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!Psalms 89:50Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—Psalms 132:1O LORD, remember on behalf of David all the hardships he endured,Psalms 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!Jeremiah 9:15Therefore 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.Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.Nehemiah 9:32So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.Jeremiah 23:15Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”Acts 8:23For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”

Written to them
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Remembering mine affliction, the wormwood and gall
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