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A Prayer, Not Just a Memory
Multiple commentators, including Ellicott and Gill, point out that the word 'Remember' is best understood as a direct prayer to God. Rather than simply thinking about his pain, the author is making an active, desperate plea for God to see his suffering. This models for believers that in our deepest affliction, we can and should turn our painful memories into cries for divine help.
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Lamentations
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Albert Barnes
On Lamentations 3:19
18th Century
Theologian
Remembering - Or, as in the margin. It is a prayer to Yahweh.
My misery - Or, “my” homelessness (Lamentations 1:7 n…
Charles Ellicott
On Lamentations 3:19
19th Century
Bishop
Remembering. —The verb, which is rendered by the Authorized Version as a gerundial infinitive, is better taken as an imperative, <…
Charles Spurgeon
On Lamentations 3:18–21
19th Century
Preacher
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul ha…
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John Calvin
On Lamentations 3:19
16th Century
Theologian
The verb may be considered as an imperative; it is an infinitive mood, but it is often taken in Hebrew as an imperative. Thus, many consider it a p…
John Gill
On Lamentations 3:19
17th Century
Pastor
Remembering mine affliction and my misery
The miserable affliction of him and his people; the remembrance of which, …
Matthew Henry
On Lamentations 3:1–20
17th Century
Minister
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…