Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and bitterness. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
In Context
18So I say, “My endurance has perished and so has my hope in Yahweh.” 1
20I continually remember it and I am bowed down within me. 1
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:32Now therefore, our God—you great, mighty, and awesome God who keep your covenant and steadfast love—do not let all this hardship seem little to you that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our ancestors, and on all your people from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.
Psalms 89:47Oh, think about how short my time is, 1 and for what uselessness you have created all the children of mankind! 1
Psalms 132:1Yahweh, for David's sake call to mind 1 all his afflictions. 1
Lamentations 3:5He built up siege works against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 1
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 →