Lamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Cross-reference
Lamentations 3:5 describes being surrounded with bitterness and hardship, the same affliction referred to in verse 19 as wormwood and gall.
Lamentations 3:15 speaks of being filled with bitterness and made to drink wormwood — directly matching the 'wormwood and gall' in verse 19.
Lamentations 5:1 similarly cries for God to remember the people's disgrace, reinforcing the plea for divine attention.
Psalm 132:1 says 'Remember, O Lord, on David's behalf all his affliction' — nearly identical phrasing to the lament's opening plea.
Jeremiah 23:15 directly uses 'wormwood' as judgment against false prophets, echoing the same bitter symbol here.
Revelation 8:11 uses 'Wormwood' as a bitter judgment from heaven, paralleling the symbolic bitterness here.
Jeremiah 9:15 uses the same imagery of wormwood as divine judgment, linking the personal lament to God's corporate punishment.
Job 7:7 similarly asks God to remember his fleeting life and suffering, paralleling the lamenter's cry for God to recall his affliction.
Job 23:2 also describes a bitter complaint under God's heavy hand, paralleling the wormwood and gall of this affliction.
Psalm 89:47 pleads 'Remember my frailty' — a direct parallel to the request for God to remember affliction and bitterness.
Psalm 89:50 asks God to remember the reproach of His servants, echoing the theme of recalling suffering and shame.