Lam.3.19

Lamentations 3:19

KJV

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

The Prophet’s Hope

Cross References

Jeremiah 8:14

KJV

Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

The People Respond

Jeremiah 9:15

KJV GOD

Therefore 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.

A Lament over Zion

Lamentations 3:5

KJV

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

The Prophet’s Afflictions

Lamentations 3:15

KJV

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.