Lamentations 3:20
18 So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
19 Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
21 Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
22 Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
- KJV
- My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
- WEB
- My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
- ASV
- My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
- DARBY
- My soul hath [them] constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
- BLB
- It remembers well and sinks—My soul within me.
- ÅB
- Min sjel kommer det i hu og er nedbøyet i meg.
- OTB
- Min sjel husker dem godt og er nedtrykt i meg.
- B1930
- Min sjel kommer det i hu og er nedbøiet i mig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 42:5–6
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
Read in contextPsalms 42:11
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
Read in contextJob 21:6
When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
Read in contextPsalms 43:5
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
Read in contextPsalms 146:8
the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
Read in contextPsalms 44:25
For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
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