(18-19) And I said, "Lost is my strength and my expectation from HaShem. Remember my afflictions and my sorrow, the wormwood and the bitterness – These two verses are combined by phraseology, and the explanation is one. Thus, their explanation is that although I was able to say my hope and my expectation from HaShem was lost, for what hope is there for someone who is imprisoned in a dark place, and a prison built with hewn stones, and walled in for his sake? He is bound with heavy chains, and locked up in prison from all sides, so that no one would hear his voice from outside when he cries out. He twisted his paths from outside to the prison, so that even if he pulled down the wall of the prison, it would be impossible for him to return the way that he had walked and there is nothing for it but that he is a lurking bear to me – From now on, my hope to get out is lost, and in vain I cry out and plead for behold, he shut out my prayer – Even so, I was not silent from crying out and asking him for mercy, and to beg from him, and say to him, Remember my afflictions and my sorrow, the wormwood and the bitterness.

And I said: 'My strength is perished, And mine expectation from Hashem' – פורטנט קייא פודרייא אורא דירא צישטא אשפרנצא אישט מא פרדוטא קייא דצישטא יירקלא דייו מייש איישיר פורטנט נליריי ייו קייו נדייאה פרייאיר אדוי‎.⁠¹.

Remember mine affliction and mine anguish – which is akin to the wormwood and the gall.

and my sorrow (ומרודי) – like and bring the homeless [into the] house (Isaiah 58:7).