Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and my mourning, || Wormwood and gall!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
In Context
18And I say, My strength and my hope have perished from YHWH.
20Remember well, and my soul bows down in me.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:32And now, O our God—God, the great, the mighty, || And the fearful, || Keeping the covenant and the kindness—Do not let all the travail that has found us be little before You, || For our kings, for our heads, and for our priests, || And for our prophets, and for our fathers, || And for all Your people, || From the days of the kings of Asshur to this day;
Psalms 89:47Remember how [short] my lifetime [is]. Why have You created in vain || All the sons of men?
Psalms 132:1A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. Remember, YHWH, for David, all his afflictions;
Lamentations 3:5He has built up against me, || And sets around poverty and weariness.
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 →