Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
In Context
18And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.
20Remember well, and bow down doth my soul in me.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:32'And now, O our God — God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful, keeping the covenant and the kindness — let not all the travail that hath found us be little before Thee, for our kings, for our heads, and for our priests, and for our prophets, and for our fathers, and for all Thy people, from the days of the kings of Asshur unto this day;
Psalms 89:47Remember, I pray Thee, what [is] life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?
Psalms 132:1A Song of the Ascents. Remember, Jehovah, for David, all his afflictions.
Lamentations 3:5He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.
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 →