Lamentations 3:19
Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 is perished from the Lord.
20Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:32Now therefore our God, great, strong and terrible, who keepest covenant and mercy, turn not away from thy face all the labour which hath come upon us, upon our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people from the days of the king of Assur, until this day.
Psalms 89:47How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire?
Psalms 132:1Lord, my heart is not exalted: nor are my eyes lofty. Neither have I walked in great matters, nor in wonderful things above me.
Lamentations 3:5Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour.
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 →