Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
In Context
18So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
20Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:32So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.
Psalms 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
Psalms 132:1O LORD, remember on behalf of David all the hardships he endured,
Lamentations 3:5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness 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 →