Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
(Jeremiah 9:15.) Remembering mine affliction ... This gives the reason why he gave way to the temptation to despair implied in Lamentations 3:18, "My hope is perished from the Lord." The margin, 'Remember,' does not suit the sense so well.
Verse 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me - i:e., as often as my soul calls them to remembrance, it is humbled or bowed down in me.
Verse 21. This I recall to my mind - "this" - namely, what follows: the view of the divine character (in Lamentations 3:22-23) as being full of "mercies." Calvin makes "this" refer to Jeremiah's infirmity. His very weakness (Lamentations 3:19-20) gives him hope of God interposing His strength for him (cf. Psalms 25:11; Psalms 25:17; Psalms 42:5; Psalms 42:8; 2 Corinthians 12:9-10). [Cheth (ch)]