18 And I said, My strength and my [a]hope is perished from the Lord,

19 Remembering mine affliction, and my mourning, the wormwood and the gall.

20 My soul hath them in remembrance, and is humbled [b]in me.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:18 Thus with pain he was driven to and fro between hope and despair, as the godly ofttimes are, yet in the end the spirit getteth the victory.
  2. Lamentations 3:20 He showeth that God thus useth to exercise his, to the intent that hereby they may know themselves, and feel his mercies.

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