Lamentations 3:19 meaning and explanation

Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Lamentations 3:19, Berean Standard Bible

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The speaker is the man of verse 1, a witness to Jerusalem's destruction, voicing the community's grief in prayer to God. He asks God not to forget what he has suffered: affliction and wandering, literally homelessness or restlessness, along with wormwood and gall, bitter plants that picture life's bitterness.

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