Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
In Context
18And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD.
20My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, let not all the travail seem little before thee, that has come upon us, on our kings, on our rulers, and on our priests, an
Psalms 89:47O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!
Psalms 132:1LORD, remember for David all his affliction,
Lamentations 3:5He has built against me, and encompassed me with gall and travail.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →