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Complete Jewish Bible

Lamentations 3:20

They are always on my mind; this is why I am so 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.
Contemporary English Version
That's all I ever think about, and I am 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 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his fury, 2 He has led me and made me walk in darkness and not in light. 3 Against me alone he turns his hand again and again, all day. 4 He has worn away my skin and flesh, he has broken my bones. 5 He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 6 He has made me live in darkness, like those who are long dead. 7 He has walled me in, so I can't escape; he has weighed me down with chains. 8 Even when I cry out, pleading for help, he shuts out my prayer. 9 He has barred my way with blocks of stone, he has made my paths crooked. 10 He lies in wait for me like a bear, like a lion in hiding.

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 2:20
(S: iii) So the person gave names to all the livestock, to the birds in the air and to every wild animal. But for Adam there was not found a companion suitable for helping him.
Genesis 2:23
The man-person said, "At last! This is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh. She is to be called Woman , because she was taken out of Man ."
Genesis 5:29
whom he called Noach [restful]; for he said, "This one will comfort us in our labor, in the hard work we do with our hands [to get what comes] from the ground that Adonai cursed."
Genesis 16:11
The angel of Adonai said to her, "Look, you are pregnant, and you will give birth to a son. You are to call him Yishma‘el [God pays attention] because Adonai has paid attention to your misery.
Genesis 35:18
But she died in childbirth. As she was dying she named her son Ben-Oni [son of my grief], but his father called him Binyamin [son of the right hand, son of the south].
Exodus 2:10
Then, when the child had grown some, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter; and she began to raise him as her son. She called him Moshe [pull out], explaining, "Because I pulled him out of the water."
1 Samuel 1:20
She conceived; and in due time she gave birth to a son, whom she named Sh'mu'el, "because I asked Adonai for him."
Matthew 1:21
She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Yeshua, [which means ‘ Adonai saves,'] because he will save his people from their sins."
Matthew 1:23
"The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him ‘Immanu El." (The name means, "God is with us.")
Acts 17:26
"From one man he made every nation living on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the limits of their territories and the periods when they would flourish.

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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