Lamentations 3:19
"Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall."

Commentary

Gill's Exposition

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, Lam 3:5 . (s) "recordare", Munster, Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Cocceius, Michealis.

Source: Gill's Exposition (Public Domain)

Hebrew Word Studies (5 words)

H2142 זָכַר
Definition:

23+; 3 feminine singularזָָֽכְרָהLamentations 1:7,9; 2masculine singularוְזָכַרְתָּ֫Deuteronomy 5:15+; suffixזְכַרְתַּנִיGenesis 40:14compare1 Samuel 1:11,זְכַרְתָּםPsalm 88:6; 2feminine singularזָכַר 23+; 3 feminine singularזָָֽכְרָהLamentations 1:7,9; 2masculine singularוְזָכַרְתָּ֫Deuteronomy 5:15+; suffixזְכַרְתַּנִיGenesis 40:14compare1 Samuel 1:11,זְכַרְתָּםPsalm 88:6; 2feminine singularזָכַר

Possible Meanings:
  • male (semantic_range)
  • male (semantic_range)
  • male (semantic_range)
H6040 עֱנִי
Definition:

Fromanah; depression, i.e. Misery:see HEBREWanahBrown-Driver-Briggsעֳנִיnoun masculineaffliction, poverty; —׳עExodus 3:7+;עֹ֑נִיDeuteronomy 16:3+,ע֑וֺנִיPsalm 107:41,עוני2 Samuel 16:12(Kt, but readעָנ Fromanah; depression, i.e. Misery:see HEBREWanahBrown-Driver-Briggsעֳנִיnoun masculineaffliction, poverty; —׳עExodus 3:7+;עֹ֑נִיDeuteronomy 16:3+,ע֑וֺנִיPsalm 107:41,עוני2 Samuel 16:12(Kt, but readעָנ

Possible Meanings:
  • poor (semantic_range)
  • needy (semantic_range)
H4788 מָרוּד
Definition:

19; plural suffixיְמֵיעָנְיָהּ וּמְרוּדֶיהָLamentations 1:7(read probablyמְרוּדָהּNöZMG xxxvii (1883), 539); pluralוַעֲנִיִּם מְרוּדִיםIsaiah 58:7, usually concretethe wandering(homeless)poor(Di think 19; plural suffixיְמֵיעָנְיָהּ וּמְרוּדֶיהָLamentations 1:7(read probablyמְרוּדָהּNöZMG xxxvii (1883), 539); pluralוַעֲנִיִּם מְרוּדִיםIsaiah 58:7, usually concretethe wandering(homeless)poor(Di think

Possible Meanings:
  • restlessness (semantic_range)
  • straying (semantic_range)
H3939 לַעֲנָה
Definition:

— of perverted justice,Amos 5:7;Amos 6:12(""ראֹשׁ; of result of idolatry,Deuteronomy 29:17(""id.); of׳יs chastisementJeremiah 9:14(""מֵ֯ירֿאֹשׁ,Jeremiah 23:15(""id.),Lamentations 3:15(""מְרוֺרִים),Lam — of perverted justice,Amos 5:7;Amos 6:12(""ראֹשׁ; of result of idolatry,Deuteronomy 29:17(""id.); of׳יs chastisementJeremiah 9:14(""מֵ֯ירֿאֹשׁ,Jeremiah 23:15(""id.),Lamentations 3:15(""מְרוֺרִים),Lam

Possible Meanings:
  • wormwood (semantic_range)
H7219 רֹאשׁ
Definition:

32)רוֺשׁnoun masculineDeuteronomy 32:33a bitter and poisonous herb, them venom, always figurative; —1a bitter and poisonous herb, + (or "")לַעֲנָהDeuteronomy 29:17;Lamentations 3:19, so (מֵי ראֹשׁ)Jer 32)רוֺשׁnoun masculineDeuteronomy 32:33a bitter and poisonous herb, them venom, always figurative; —1a bitter and poisonous herb, + (or "")לַעֲנָהDeuteronomy 29:17;Lamentations 3:19, so (מֵי ראֹשׁ)Jer

Possible Meanings:
  • head (semantic_range)
  • head (semantic_range)
  • head (semantic_range)
  • chief (semantic_range)
  • sum (semantic_range)

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