Lamentations 3:19
Remembering my affliction and [the cause of] my complaint, wormwood and poison.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
In Context
18And I said, Lost is my strength, my expectation also from the Lord.
20Remembering [this] continually my soul is bowed down deeply within me.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:32And now, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest the covenant and kindness, let not be esteemed as little before thee all the hardship that hath befallen us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.
Psalms 89:47(89:48) Remember [what] I am, what my duration is [here], for what nothingness thou hast created all sons of men!
Psalms 132:1“A song of the degrees.” Remember, O Lord, unto David all his afflictions;
Lamentations 3:5He hath built around me, and encompassed me with poison 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 →