John Gill, on Lam 3:19

“Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall.”

“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.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.