Lamentations 3:19
Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
Darby Translation
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 hope in Jehovah.
20My soul hath [them] constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:32And now, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and loving-kindness, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the days of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
Psalms 89:47Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?
Psalms 132:1{A Song of degrees.} Jehovah, remember for David all his affliction;
Lamentations 3:5He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.
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 →