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Contemporary English Version

Lamentations 3:20

That's all I ever think about, and I am depressed.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Despondency;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions Made Beneficial;   Humility;   Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Providence of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lamentations, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Lamentations, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Barachiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Text of the Old Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gentile;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 17;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I continually remember themand have become depressed.
Hebrew Names Version
My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
King James Version
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
English Standard Version
My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me.
New American Standard Bible
My soul certainly remembers, And is bent over within me.
New Century Version
Please remember me and think about me.
Amplified Bible
My soul continually remembers them And is bowed down within me.
World English Bible
My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
My soule hath them in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Surely my soul remembers And is bowed down within me.
Legacy Standard Bible
Surely my soul remembersAnd is bowed down within me.
Berean Standard Bible
Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
Complete Jewish Bible
They are always on my mind; this is why I am so depressed.
Darby Translation
My soul hath [them] constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Easy-to-Read Version
I remember well all my troubles, and I am very sad.
George Lamsa Translation
Remember and restore my life.
Good News Translation
I think of it constantly, and my spirit is depressed.
Lexham English Bible
Surely my soul remembers and bows down within me.
Literal Translation
My soul vividly remembers and bows down on me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee thou shalt remebre them, for my soule melteth awaye in me.
American Standard Version
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
Bible in Basic English
My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
King James Version (1611)
My soule hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yea thou shalt remember them, for my soule melteth away in me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and my soul shall meditate with me.
English Revised Version
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Zai. Bi mynde Y schal be myndeful; and my soule schal faile in me.
Update Bible Version
My soul has them still in remembrance, and is bowed down inside me.
Webster's Bible Translation
My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
New English Translation
I continually think about this, and I am depressed.
New King James Version
My soul still remembers And sinks within me.
New Living Translation
I will never forget this awful time, as I grieve over my loss.
New Life Bible
I remember it always, and my soul bows down within me.
New Revised Standard
My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down within me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou wilt, indeed remember, that, bowed down concerning myself, is my soul;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.
Revised Standard Version
My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down within me.
Young's Literal Translation
Remember well, and bow down doth my soul in me.

Contextual Overview

1 The Prophet Speaks: I have suffered much because God was angry. 2 He chased me into a dark place, where no light could enter. 3 I am the only one he punishes over and over again, without ever stopping. 4 God caused my skin and flesh to waste away, and he crushed my bones. 5 He attacked and surrounded me with hardships and trouble; 6 he forced me to sit in the dark like someone long dead. 7 God built a fence around me that I cannot climb over, and he chained me down. 8 Even when I shouted and prayed for help, he refused to listen. 9 God put big rocks in my way and made me follow a crooked path. 10 God was like a bear or a lion waiting in ambush for me;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hath: Job 21:6

humbled: Heb. bowed, Psalms 42:5, Psalms 42:6, Psalms 42:11, Psalms 43:5, Psalms 146:8

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 16:12 - General Job 23:2 - my complaint Psalms 102:4 - heart Matthew 5:23 - rememberest

Cross-References

Genesis 2:23
and the man exclaimed, "Here is someone like me! She is part of my body, my own flesh and bones. She came from me, a man. So I will name her Woman!"
Genesis 5:29
Lamech said, "I'll name him Noah because he will give us comfort, as we struggle hard to make a living on this land that the Lord has put under a curse."
Genesis 35:18
Rachel was at the point of death, and right before dying, she said, "I'll name him Benoni." But Jacob called him Benjamin.
Exodus 2:10
And when he was old enough, she took him to the king's daughter, who adopted him. She named him Moses because she said, "I pulled him out of the water."
1 Samuel 1:20
with a son. She named him Samuel because she had asked the Lord for him.
Matthew 1:21
Then after her baby is born, name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."
Matthew 1:23
"A virgin will have a baby boy, and he will be called Immanuel," which means "God is with us."
Acts 17:26
From one person God made all nations who live on earth, and he decided when and where every nation would be.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My soul hath [them] still in remembrance,.... That is, according to our version, affliction and misery, compared to wormwood and gall: but the words, "my soul", are fetched from the next clause, where they ought to stand, and this to be rendered, "in remembering thou wilt remember" t; or, "thou wilt surely remember", and so expresses the confidence of the prophet, and his firm belief, his faith and hope increasing in prayer, that God would in much mercy remember his people, and their afflictions, and save them out of them:

and is humbled in me; both under the afflicting hand of God, and in view and hope of his mercy: though rather it should be rendered, "and" or "for my soul meditateth within me" u; says or suggests such things to me, that God will in wrath remember mercy; see Psalms 77:7. So Jarchi makes mention of a Midrash, that interprets it of his soul's waiting till the time that God remembers.

t זכור תזכור "recordando recordaberis", Luther, Michaelis. u ותשיח עלי נפשי "meditatur apud me anima mea", Junius Tremellius "et animo meo meditor", Castalio.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 20. By soul - is humbled in me. — It is evident that in the preceding verses there is a bitterness of complaint against the bitterness of adversity, that is not becoming to man when under the chastising hand of God; and, while indulging this feeling, all hope fled. Here we find a different feeling; he humbles himself under the mighty hand of God, and then his hope revives, Lamentations 3:21.


 
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