Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
In Context
18And I say, “My confidence and my hope in Jehovah are gone!”
20Yea, thou wilt remember them, for my soul sinketh within me!
Cross References
Psalms 89:47Remember how short is my life, To what frailty thou hast created all men!
Psalms 132:1“A psalm of the steps, or the goings up.” O LORD! remember David, And all his affliction!
Lamentations 3:5He hath builded against me, and encompassed me with bitterness and woe.
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 →