Lamentations 3:19
Good News Translation
The thought of my pain, my homelessness, is bitter poison.

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

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

New American Bible
The thought of my wretched homelessness is wormwood and poison;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Nehemiah 9:32 Now therefore our God, great, strong, and terrible, who keepest covenant and mercy, turn not away from thy face all the labour which hath come upon us, upon our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people from the days of the king of Assur, until this day.

Job 7:7 Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.

Psalm 89:47,50 Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain? . . .

Psalm 132:1 A gradual canticle. O Lord, remember David, and all his meekness.

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Lamentations 3:5,15 Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour. . . .

Jeremiah 9:15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Context
Jeremiah's Hope
19Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall.20Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 8:14
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced city, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and hath given us water of gall to drink: for we have sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Lamentations 3:5
Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour.

Lamentations 3:15
He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:18
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