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Lamentations 3:19

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

KJV

Recordare paupertatis, et transgressionis meæ, absinthii et fellis.

Vulgate

Ζάι. Ἐμνήσθην ἀπὸ πτωχείας μου καὶ ἐκ διωγμοῦ,

LXX

Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

ASV

זְכָר עָנְיִ֥/י וּ/מְרוּדִ֖/י לַעֲנָ֥ה וָ/רֹֽאשׁ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

זְכָר
zkr
verb · 231×
י
y
noun · 36×
לַעֲנָֽה
l'nh
noun · 8×
מְרוּדִ֖ים
mrvdym
noun · 3×
רֹאשׁ֙
r'sh
noun · 12×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Dan 4:34 — And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever,
  • Jer 8:14 — Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, becau
  • Lam 3:5 — He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
  • Lam 3:5 — He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
  • Lam 3:15 — He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
  • Lam 5:1 — Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
  • Ps 132:1 — Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:
  • Rev 8:11 — And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.