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New Century Version

Lamentations 3:20

Please remember me and think about me.

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.
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 am a man who has seen the suffering that comes from the rod of the Lord 's anger. 2 He led me into darkness, not light. 3 He turned his hand against me again and again, all day long. 4 He wore out my flesh and skin and broke my bones. 5 He surrounded me with sadness and attacked me with grief. 6 He made me sit in the dark, like those who have been dead a long time. 7 He shut me in so I could not get out; he put heavy chains on me. 8 I cry out and beg for help, but he ignores my prayer. 9 He blocked my way with a stone wall and led me in the wrong direction. 10 He is like a bear ready to attack me, 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
The man gave names to all the tame animals, to the birds in the sky, and to all the wild animals. But Adam did not find a helper that was right for him.
Genesis 2:23
And the man said, "Now, this is someone whose bones came from my bones, whose body came from my body. I will call her ‘woman,' because she was taken out of man."
Genesis 5:29
Lamech named his son Noah and said, "He will comfort us in our work, which comes from the ground the Lord has cursed."
Genesis 16:11
The angel added, "You are now pregnant, and you will have a son. You will name him Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your cries.
Genesis 35:18
Rachel gave birth to the son, but she herself died. As she lay dying, she named the boy Son of My Suffering, but Jacob called him Benjamin.
Exodus 2:10
When the child grew older, the woman took him to the king's daughter, and she adopted the baby as her own son. The king's daughter named him Moses, because she had pulled him out of the water.
1 Samuel 1:20
So Hannah became pregnant, and in time she gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, "His name is Samuel because I asked the Lord for him."
Matthew 1:21
She will give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."
Matthew 1:23
"The virgin will be pregnant. She will have a son, and they will name him Immanuel," which means "God is with us."
Acts 17:26
God began by making one person, and from him came all the different people who live everywhere in the world. God decided exactly when and where they must live.

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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