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Lamentations 3

Lam. 3:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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τRemembering
zakar (Hebrew #2142)
properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; also (as denominative from 2145) to be male
KJV usage: X burn (incense), X earnestly, be male, (make) mention (of), be mindful, recount, record(-er), remember, make to be remembered, bring (call, come, keep, put) to (in) remembrance, X still, think on, X well.
Pronounce: zaw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
mine affliction
`oniy (Hebrew #6040)
from 6031; depression, i.e. misery: --afflicted(-ion), trouble.
Pronounce: on-ee'
and my misery
maruwd (Hebrew #4788)
an outcast; (abstractly) destitution
KJV usage: cast out, misery.
Pronounce: maw-rood'
Origin: from 7300 in the sense of maltreatment
, the wormwood
la`anah (Hebrew #3939)
wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed)
KJV usage: hemlock, wormwood.
Pronounce: lah-an-aw'
Origin: from an unused root supposed to mean to curse
v and the gall
ro'sh (Hebrew #7219)
apparently the same as 7218; a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents)
KJV usage: gall, hemlock, poison, venom.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: or rowsh (Deut. 32:32) {roshe}
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or, Remember.
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Jer. 9:15• 15therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink, (Jer. 9:15)

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Gall,
Hemlock,
Wormwood

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Remembering.
or, Remember.
Neh. 9:32• 32And now, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible *God, who keepest covenant and loving-kindness, 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 days of the kings of Assyria unto this day. (Neh. 9:32)
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Job 7:7• 7Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good. (Job 7:7)
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Psa. 89:47,50• 47Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?
 50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants--that I bear in my bosom that of all the mighty peoples-- (Psa. 89:47,50)
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Psa. 132:1• 1A Song of degrees. Jehovah, remember for David all his affliction; (Psa. 132:1)
the.
Lam. 3:5,15• 5He hath built against me, and encompassed me with gall and toil.
 15He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood. (Lam. 3:5,15)
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Jer. 9:15• 15therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink, (Jer. 9:15)
• There is the very point of change. From verse 19 he spreads out all before Jehovah, whom he asks to remember it; and from the utter prostration of his soul he begins to conceive confidence. (“Lamentations of Jeremiah: Chapter 3:1-21” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Remember thou mine affliction and my wanderingb, the wormwood and the gall.

JND Translation Notes

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b
Or "my misery." see ch. 1.7.