My soul has ... —The verb, as in Lamentations 3:17, may be either in the second person or the third; the former gives, You wil…

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity. And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: rememberi…

The Prophet seems, in other words, to confirm what he had said: namely, that the memory of afflictions overwhelmed his soul. For the soul is said t…

My soul has [them] still in remembrance
That is, according to our version, affliction and misery, compared to wormwo…

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…

Here he presents arguments to exclude despair.