Lamentations 3:19
Remember my humiliation and my fleeings, the wormwood and poison;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
In Context
18And I said, Vanished is mine endurance, even mine expectation, from Yahweh.
20Thou wilt, indeed remember, that, bowed down concerning myself, is my soul;
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:32Now, therefore, O our God—the GOD great, mighty, and fearful—keeping the covenant and the lovingkindness, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, which hath come upon us—on our kings, on our rulers, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people,—from the days of the kings of Assyria, until this day.
Psalms 89:47Remember how short-lived, I, am, Wherefore, in vain, hast thou created all the sons of Adam?
Psalms 132:1Remember, O Yahweh, unto David, all his humiliations!
Lamentations 3:5He hath built up against me, and carried round me, fortifications and a trench;
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 →