Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 3:19

19 Remembring mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall .

If according to our translation we read Remembring, or while I remember, these two verses contain but one sentence; in the former part the Prophet in the name of this People expresseth their despairing condition; in the latter he gives the reason of it. viz. the Peoples poring upon their great, and heavy afflictions, which he compares to wormwood and gall, two things excessively bitter, and often made use of to signifie great affliction, Psal. 69.21. Ier. .8.14. and 9.15. and 23.15. R[illegible: 1 letter]v. 8.11. But it may as well be read imperatively, Remember mine affliction, so the first of these two verses expresseth the dejection of the Peoples minds in their Captivity caused through their proneness to despair of any better condition that their angry God would bring them into. The 29th. verse is a prayer directed to God, which shewed that though they were mightily perplexed, yet they were not in utter despair; and to this sense the following verses seem to incline.

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