Lamentations 3:20

THE MESSAGE

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.

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 I'm the man who has seen trouble, trouble coming from the lash of God 's anger. He took me by the hand and walked me into pitch-black darkness. Yes, he's given me the back of his hand over and over and over again. ⁴He turned me into a scarecrow of skin and bones, then broke the bones. He hemmed me in, ganged up on me, poured on the trouble and hard times. He locked me up in deep darkness, like a corpse nailed inside a coffin. ⁷He shuts me in so I'll never get out, manacles my hands, shackles my feet. Even when I cry out and plead for help, he locks up my prayers and throws away the key. He sets up blockades with quarried limestone. He's got me cornered. ¹⁰He's a prowling bear tracking me down, a lion in hiding ready to pounce. He knocked me from the path and ripped me to pieces. When he finished, there was nothing left of me. He took out his bow and arrows and used me for target practice. ¹³He shot me in the stomach with arrows from his quiver. Everyone took me for a joke, made me the butt of their mocking ballads. He forced rotten, stinking food down my throat, bloated me with vile drinks. ¹⁶He ground my face into the gravel. He pounded me into the mud. I gave up on life altogether. I've forgotten what the good life is like. I said to myself, "This is it. I'm finished. God is a lost cause." ¹⁹I'll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness, the taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed. I remember it all—oh, how well I remember— the feeling of hitting the bottom. But there's one other thing I remember, and remembering, I keep a grip on hope:

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
The Man said, "Finally! Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh! Name her Woman for she was made from Man." Therefore a man leaves his father and mother and embraces his wife. They become one flesh. The two of them, the Man and his Wife, were naked, but they felt no shame.

Genesis 35:18
With her last breath, for she was now dying, she named him Ben-oni (Son-of-My-Pain), but his father named him Ben-jamin (Son-of-Good-Fortune).

Exodus 2:10
After the child was weaned, she presented him to Pharaoh's daughter who adopted him as her son. She named him Moses (Pulled-Out), saying, "I pulled him out of the water."

1 Samuel 1:20
Before the year was out, Hannah had conceived and given birth to a son. She named him Samuel, explaining, "I asked God for him."

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.