Lamentations 3:19
ZAIN. Remember my poverty and my transgression, the wormwood and the gall.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
In Context
18VAU. And I said, “My end and my hope from the Lord has perished.”
20ZAIN. I will call to mind the past, and my soul shall languish within me.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:32Now therefore, our great God, strong and terrible, who keeps covenant and mercy, may you not avert your face from all the hardship that has found us, we and our kings, and our leaders, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people, from the days of king Assur, even to this day.
Psalms 132:1A Canticle in steps: of David. Behold, how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to dwell in unity.
Lamentations 3:5BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship.
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 →