KJV King James Version
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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Lamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
WEB World English Bible
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
ASV American Standard Version
Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!
Surrounding context — Lamentations 3
16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20 My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
22 [It is of] the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
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Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.Lamentations 3:5He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.Job 7:7O remember that my life [is] wind: mine eye shall no more see good.Psalm 132:1A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David, [and] all his afflictions:Psalm 89:50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; [how] I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty people;Nehemiah 9:32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.Psalm 89:47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?Jeremiah 9:15Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
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