Lamentations 3:19

Douay-Rheims Bible

Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Remember my affliction and my homelessness,the wormwood and the poison.

Hebrew Names Version
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

King James Version
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

English Standard Version
Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!

New American Standard Bible
Remember my misery and my homelessness, the wormwood and bitterness.

New Century Version
Lord , remember my suffering and my misery, my sorrow and trouble.

Amplified Bible
Remember [O LORD] my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall (bitterness).

World English Bible
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Remembring mine affliction, & my mourning, the wormewood and the gall.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.

Legacy Standard Bible
Remember my affliction and my homelessness, the wormwood and gall.

Berean Standard Bible
Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Contemporary English Version
Just thinking of my troubles and my lonely wandering makes me miserable.

Complete Jewish Bible
Remember my utter misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Darby Translation
Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Easy-to-Read Version
Remember, I am very sad, and I have no home. Remember the bitter poison that you gave me.

George Lamsa Translation
Remember my affliction and my chastisement, the bitterness and the sorrow.

Good News Translation
The thought of my pain, my homelessness, is bitter poison.

Lexham English Bible
Remember my misery and bitterness, the wormwood and venom!

Literal Translation
Remember my affliction and my roaming, as wormwood and bitterness.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O remembre yet my mysery and my trouble, the wormwod and the gall.

American Standard Version
Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Bible in Basic English
Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Remember mine affliction and mine anguish, the wormwood and the gall.

King James Version (1611)
Remembring mine affliction and my miserie, the wormewood & the gall.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
O remember yet my miserie and my trouble, the wormewood and the gall.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered;

English Revised Version
Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Zai. Haue thou mynde on my pouert and goyng ouer, and on wermod and galle.

Update Bible Version
Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Webster's Bible Translation
Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

New English Translation

ז (Zayin)

Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison.

New King James Version
Remember my affliction and roaming, The wormwood and the gall.

New Living Translation
The thought of my suffering and homelessness is bitter beyond words.

New Life Bible
Remember my trouble and my traveling from place to place, the wormwood and bitter feelings.

New Revised Standard
The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Remember my humiliation and my fleeings, the wormwood and poison;

Revised Standard Version
Remember my affliction and my bitterness, the wormwood and the gall!

Young's Literal Translation
Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!

THE MESSAGE
I'll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness, the taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed. I remember it all—oh, how well I remember— the feeling of hitting the bottom. But there's one other thing I remember, and remembering, I keep a grip on hope:

Contextual Overview

¹ Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation. ² Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light. ³ Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day. ⁴ Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones. ⁵ Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour. ⁶ Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever. ⁷ Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy. ⁸ Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer. ⁹ Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down. ¹⁰ Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Remembering: or, Remember, Nehemiah 9:32, Job 7:7, Psalms 89:47, Psalms 89:50, Psalms 132:1

the: Lamentations 3:5, Lamentations 3:15, Jeremiah 9:15

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 16:12 - General Job 9:18 - filleth me Job 21:6 - Even when Job 23:2 - my complaint Jeremiah 8:14 - water Jeremiah 23:15 - will Lamentations 5:1 - Remember Daniel 4:34 - I blessed Acts 8:23 - the gall Revelation 8:11 - Wormwood

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.

Genesis 3:16
To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

Genesis 3:21
And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.

Genesis 3:22
And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.

Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.

Genesis 23:4
I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead.

Job 1:21
And said: Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.

Job 19:26
And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God.

Job 21:26
And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Remembering mine affliction and my misery,.... The miserable affliction of him and his people; the remembrance of which, and poring upon it continually, caused the despondency before expressed: though it may be rendered imperatively, "remember my affliction, and my misery" s; so the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions; and Aben Ezra observes, that the words may be considered as a request to God, and so they seem to be; the prophet, and the people he represents, were not so far gone into despair, as to cast off prayer before God; but once more looked up to him, beseeching that he would, in his great mercy and pity, remember them in their distressed condition, and deliver out of it; for none could do it but himself:

the wormwood and the gall; figurative expressions of bitter and grievous afflictions, Lamentations 3:5.

s זכר "recordare", Munster, Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Cocceius, Michealis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Remembering - Or, as in the margin. It is a prayer to Yahweh.

My misery - Or, “my” homelessness (Lamentations 1:7 note).