Lamentations 3:19

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

"Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall." - Lamentations 3:19
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What does Lamentations 3:19 mean?

Lamentations 3:19 (KJV): "Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall." Lamentations is a book in the Old Testament, traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah. It is a collection of poetic expressions of grief and sorrow over the destruction of…

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Reflections in the Valley: Finding Hope Amidst Sorrow

The Book of Lamentations is a collection of poignant prayers and messages that echo the deep anguish of Israel during and after the destruction of Jerusalem. In this somber text, we encounter the raw emotions of a people devastated by loss, with Lamentations 3:19 capturing the…

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A Prayer of Remembrance in Times of Affliction

O Heavenly Father, In the stillness of this moment, I come before You, yearning to reflect upon the profound depths of my heart, echoing the verses of Lamentations 3:19, "Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall." Lord, I acknowledge that life’s…

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Ezekiel 19:1 - "Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,"
Ezekiel 19:14 - "And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation."
Lamentations 3:23 - "They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness."
Lamentations 5:3 - "We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."
Lamentations 3:36 - "To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not."
Lamentations 3:3 - "Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day."
Lamentations 3:38 - "Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?"
Lamentations 3:27 - "It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth."
Lamentations 3:47 - "Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction."
Lamentations 3:34 - "To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,"
Lamentations 3:50 - "Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven."
Lamentations 3:29 - "He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope."
Lamentations 3:2 - "He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light."
Lamentations 3:21 - "This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope."
Lamentations 3:37 - "¶ Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?"
Lamentations 3:49 - "Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,"
Lamentations 3:45 - "Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people."
Lamentations 3:20 - "My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me."
Lamentations 3:35 - "To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,"
Lamentations 3:63 - "Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick."
Lamentations 3:33 - "For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men."
Lamentations 3:46 - "All our enemies have opened their mouths against us."
Lamentations 4:19 - "Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness."