Lamentations 3:19
Remembring mine affliction, and my mourning, the wormewood and the gall.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
In Context
18And I saide, My strength and mine hope is perished from the Lord,
20My soule hath them in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:32Nowe therefore our God, thou great God, mightie and terrible, that keepest couenant and mercie, let not all the affliction that hath come vnto vs, seeme a litle before thee, that is, to our Kings, to our princes, and to our Priests, and to our Prophets, and to our fathers, and to all thy people since the time of the Kings of Asshur vnto this day.
Psalms 89:47Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?
Psalms 132:1A song of degrees. Lord, remember Dauid with all his affliction.
Lamentations 3:5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour.
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 →