Lamentations 3:19

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Lamentations 3:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible

17 My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

18 So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”

19 Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

20 Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.

21 Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:

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Nehemiah 9:32

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Job 7:7

Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

Psalms 89:47

Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

Psalms 89:50

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Psalms 132:1

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Lamentations 3:5

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Lamentations 3:15

He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.