Lamentations 3:19
Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
In Context
18And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.
20My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:32And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.
Psalms 89:47\89:46\How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?
Psalms 132:1A Song of the going up. Lord, give thought to David, and to all his troubles;
Lamentations 3:5He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
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 →