Lamentations 3:19-21

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

(.) Remembering mine affliction ... This gives the reason why he gave way to the temptation to despair implied in , "My hope is perished from the Lord." The margin, 'Remember,' does not suit the sense so well.

Verse 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me - i:e., as often as my soul calls them to remembrance, it is humbled or bowed down in me.

Verse 21. This I recall to my mind - "this" - namely, what follows: the view of the divine character (in Lamentations 3:22) as being full of "mercies." Calvin makes "this" refer to Jeremiah's infirmity. His very weakness (Lamentations 3:19) gives him hope of God interposing His strength for him (cf. ; ; ; ; 2 Corinthians 12:9). [Cheth (ch)]