KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Lamentations 3:19–20
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Lamentations 3:19
19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
19‖Remembring mine affliction and my miserie, the wormewood & the gall.
- Or, remember.
Lamentations 3:20
20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
20†My soule hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
- Heb. bowed
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DEFINED WORDS
Lamentations 3:19
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
Remembering
Having in mind.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Great distress, affliction, suffering, or wretchedness.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The notably bitter plant called wormwood, used also as an image of bitterness, poison, or calamity.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Bile; by extension, something bitter or poisonous.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Lamentations 3:20
To stop, as motion or agitation; to check’ or restrain; to make quiet.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
remembrance
The act or state of remembering; a memory, memorial, or reminder.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Made low or abased; brought into meekness, submission, or penitence; the past form of humble.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 19
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Open the full verse study15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
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Open the full verse study5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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Open the full verse study15Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
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Open the full verse study7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
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Open the full verse study32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, 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 time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
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Open the full verse study1LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:
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Open the full verse study47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
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Open the full verse study50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
From verse 20
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Open the full verse study11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
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Open the full verse study5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
6O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
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Open the full verse study6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
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Open the full verse study5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
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Open the full verse study8The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous:
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Open the full verse study25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
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