The Meaning of Lamentations 3:19 Explained

Lamentations 3:19

KJV: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

YLT: Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!

Darby: Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

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

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Lamentations 3:19 Mean?

Verse Meaning

Jeremiah prayed that the Lord would remember his affliction and bitterness (cf. Job 13:15).

Chapter Summary: Lamentations 3

1  The prophet bewails his own calamities
22  By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope
37  He acknowledges God's justice
55  He prays for deliverance
64  And vengeance on his enemies

What do the individual words in Lamentations 3:19 mean?

Remember my affliction and roaming the wormwood and the gall
זְכָר־ עָנְיִ֥י וּמְרוּדִ֖י לַעֲנָ֥ה וָרֹֽאשׁ

זְכָר־  Remember 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine singular
Root: זָכַר 
Sense: to remember, recall, call to mind.
עָנְיִ֥י  my  affliction 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: עֳנִי  
Sense: affliction, poverty, misery.
וּמְרוּדִ֖י  and  roaming 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: מָרוּד  
Sense: restlessness, straying, wanderer, refugee.
לַעֲנָ֥ה  the  wormwood 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: לַעֲנָה  
Sense: wormwood.
וָרֹֽאשׁ  and  the  gall 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular
Root: רֹאשׁ  
Sense: gall, venom, bitter, poisonous.