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Lamentations 3:19

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Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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  1. Lamentations 3:15Rank 1 from verse 19
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    15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

  2. Lamentations 3:5Rank 2 from verse 19
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    5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

  3. Jeremiah 9:15Rank 3 from verse 19
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    15Therefore 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.

  4. Job 7:7Rank 4 from verse 19
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    7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

  5. Nehemiah 9:32Rank 5 from verse 19
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    32Now 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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Lamentations 3:19

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remembering

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of remember. Sense 1: To retain in mind or call back to mind; to recall. Sense 2: To keep in mind with heed, observance, commemoration, or corresponding action. Sense 3: To take account of a person, promise, deed, sin, or need and act with regard to it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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wormwood

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1. A bitter substance or plant. 2. Figuratively, bitterness, poison, corrupt judgment, or calamity.

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gall

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Sense 1: A bodily organ or its bitter fluid. Sense 2: A bitter or poisonous substance. Sense 3: By figure, extreme bitterness, misery, corruption, iniquity, or bitter judgment.

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18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:

19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

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20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

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