Lamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
King James Version
In Context
18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
Psalms 89:47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Psalms 132:1LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:
Lamentations 3:5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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 →