Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
In Context
18I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from the LORD.”
20My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
Psalms 89:47Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!
Psalms 132:1LORD, remember David and all his affliction,
Lamentations 3:5He has built against 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 →