Lamentations 3:20

Wycliffe Bible

Zai. Bi mynde Y schal be myndeful; and my soule schal faile in me.

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.

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 Aleph. I am a man seynge my pouert in the yerde of his indignacioun. ² Aleph. He droof me, and brouyte in to derknessis, and not in to liyt. ³ Aleph. Oneli he turnede in to me, and turnede togidere his hond al dai. ⁴ Beth. He made eld my skyn, and my fleisch; he al to-brak my boonys. ⁵ Beth. He bildid in my cumpas, and he cumpasside me with galle and trauel. ⁶ Beth. He settide me in derk places, as euerlastynge deed men. ⁷ Gymel. He bildide aboute ayens me, that Y go not out; he aggregide my gyues. ⁸ Gymel. But and whanne Y crie and preye, he hath excludid my preier. ⁹ Gymel. He closide togidere my weies with square stoonus; he distriede my pathis. ¹⁰ Deleth. He is maad a bere settinge aspies to me, a lioun in hid places.

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
And Adam clepide bi her names alle lyuynge thingis, and alle volatils, and alle vnresonable beestis of erthe. Forsothe to Adam was not foundun an helpere lijk hym.

Genesis 2:23
And Adam seide, This is now a boon of my boonys, and fleisch of my fleisch; this schal be clepid virago, `for she is takun of man.

Genesis 5:29
and clepide his name Noe, and seide, This man schal comforte vs of the werkis and traueilis of oure hondis, in the loond which the Lord curside.

Genesis 16:11
And aftirward he seide, Lo! thou hast conseyued, and thou schalt bere a sone, and thou schalt clepe his name Ismael, for the Lord hath herd thi turment;

Genesis 35:18
Forsothe while the soule yede out for sorew, and deeth neiyede thanne, she clepide the name of hir sone Bennony, that is, the sone of my sorewe; forsothe the fadir clepide hym Beniamyn, that is the sone of the riyt side.

Exodus 2:10
whom sche purchaside `in to the place of sone; and sche clepide his name Moises, and seide, For Y took hym fro the watir.

1 Samuel 1:20
And it was doon after the cumpas of daies, Anna conseyuede, and childide a sone, and sche clepide his name Samuel; for sche hadde axid hym of the Lord.

Matthew 1:21
And she shal bere a sone, and thou shalt clepe his name Jhesus; for he schal make his puple saaf fro her synnes.

Matthew 1:23
a virgyn shal haue in wombe, and she schal bere a sone, and thei schulen clepe his name Emanuel, that is to seie, God with vs.

Acts 17:26
and made of oon al the kinde of men to enhabite on al the face of the erthe, determynynge tymes ordeyned, and termes of the dwellynge of hem,

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.