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
5 notes on this verseIt 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
Remember my affliction and wandering
on Lamentations 3:19-21
The man recalls “the wormwood and the gall”, and at first memory only rehearses the pain: “Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me”. The turn comes, “Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope”. Hope follows the recalling, and the grief before it stands.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Here is indicated arguments to wipe out despair. First, by divine mercy, second, by divine justice. Third, by divine power. To the exclusion of despair by divine mercy, two further ideas are exposed. First, is shown mercy regarding a collection of benefits, second regarding a …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Remembering mine affliction and my misery,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Remembering - Or, as in the margin. It is a prayer to Yahweh. My misery - Or, “my” homelessness (Lam 1:7 note).
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
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About Lamentations
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Lamentations.