| Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 3:1-20 The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an affliction that was misery itself; for sin makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup. The struggle between unbelief and faith is often very severe. But the weakest believer is wrong, if he thinks that his strength and hope are perished from the Lord.
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 19-21. - These verses prepare the way for a brief interval of calmness and resignation. Verse 19. - Remembering; rather, remember. It is the language of prayer.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleRemembering 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, Lamentations 3:5. (s) "recordare", Munster, Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Cocceius, Michealis.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary19-21. This gives the reason why he gave way to the temptation to despair. The Margin, "Remember" does not suit the sense so well. wormwood … gall—(Jer 9:15).
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