Lamentations 3:19

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ז(Zayin) Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 3:5 : 5 He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.
  • Lam 3:15 : 15 He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.
  • Jer 9:15 : 15 So then, listen to what I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, say.‘I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.
  • Neh 9:32 : 32 “So now, our God– the great, powerful, and awesome God, who keeps covenant fidelity– do not regard as inconsequential all the hardship that has befallen us– our kings, our leaders, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people– from the days of the kings of Assyria until this very day!
  • Job 7:7 : 7 Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
  • Ps 89:50 : 50 Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people!
  • Ps 132:1 : 1 A song of ascents. O LORD, for David’s sake remember all his strenuous effort,

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