Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
"Remember"  (Lamentations 3:19).  This should be understood as an appeal to God. Certainly, Jeremiah was not asking Israel to remember his afflictions. Israel's king had inflicted them upon the prophet.  It was the remembrance of God's past mercies and blessings that he mentioned in  Lamentations 3:20 as the basis of his hope.  "Knowing that God hears the prayers of the contrite, Jeremiah begins to hope."[24]