Lamentations 3:19

Zayin

19 Remember^[a] my affliction and my homelessness,^[b] the wormwood and the poison.^[c]

Lamentations 3:19 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:19

Remembering mine affliction and my misery
The miserable affliction of him and his people; the remembrance of which, and poring upon it continually, caused the despondency before expressed: though it may be rendered imperatively, "remember my affliction, and my misery" {s}; so the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions; and Aben Ezra observes, that the words may be considered as a request to God, and so they seem to be; the prophet, and the people he represents, were not so far gone into despair, as to cast off prayer before God; but once more looked up to him, beseeching that he would, in his great mercy and pity, remember them in their distressed condition, and deliver out of it; for none could do it but himself: the wormwood and the gall;
figurative expressions of bitter and grievous afflictions, ( Lamentations 3:5 Lamentations 3:15 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (rkz) "recordare", Munster, Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Cocceius, Michealis.

Lamentations 3:19 In-Context

17 My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

18 Then I thought: My future is lost, as well as my hope from the Lord.

19 Remember my affliction and my homelessness, the wormwood and the poison.

20 I continually remember [them] and have become depressed.

21 Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:

Footnotes

• [a]. Or I remember
• [b]. Lm 1:7; Isa 58:7
• [c]. Dt 29:18; Jr 9:15; 23:15