Lamentations 3:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Lam 3:5 : 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Lam 3:15 : 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
Jer 9:15 : 15 therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Neh 9:32 : 32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and lovingkindness, let not all the travail 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 time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
Job 7:7 : 7 Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.
Ps 89:47 : 47 Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
Ps 89:50 : 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty peoples,
Ps 132:1 : 1 A Song of Ascents. Jehovah, remember for David All his affliction;

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Lam 3:20-21
2 verses
84%
20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
21This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
Lam 3:14-18
5 verses
84%
14I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.
18And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.
Lam 3:5
75%
5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Lam 3:1
74%
1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Ps 69:20-21
2 verses
74%
20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
21They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Jer 10:19
73%
19Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.
Job 30:16
73%
16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Ps 102:9
73%
9For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
Ps 73:21
73%
21For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:
Ps 31:9-10
2 verses
73%
9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.
10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.
Job 9:18
73%
18He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.
Job 30:27
73%
27My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are come upon me.
Jer 9:15
72%
15therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Job 16:13
72%
13His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Lam 1:20-22
3 verses
72%
20Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
21They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.
22Let all their wickedness come before thee; And do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
Ps 143:3-4
2 verses
72%
3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
Ps 116:3
72%
3The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Job 3:24
72%
24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
Ps 77:3
72%
3I remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. {H5542}
Jer 8:18
72%
18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
Job 33:19
71%
19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones;
Ps 38:17
71%
17For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
Ps 25:18
71%
18Consider mine affliction and my travail; And forgive all my sins.
Lam 1:12-13
2 verses
71%
12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is brought upon me, Wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.
13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
Ps 77:10
71%
10And I said, This is my infirmity; [But I will remember] the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Ps 31:7
71%
7I will be glad and rejoice in thy lovingkindness; For thou hast seen my affliction: Thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Job 10:1
70%
1My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Lam 3:11
70%
11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
Job 23:2
70%
2Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Job 3:20
70%
20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;
Job 13:26
70%
26For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:
Job 6:4
70%
4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Ps 102:4
70%
4My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.
Ps 55:4
70%
4My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Ps 38:6
70%
6I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
Job 17:7
70%
7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
Isa 38:15
70%
15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
Ps 22:15
70%
15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Job 7:11
70%
11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.