Lamentations 3:20 BSB

Lamentations 3:20

Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.

KJV

My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

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Commentary

3 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Lamentations (1274)

Second, memory reduces itself to the benefits the people received. "My soul continually thinks of it," the benefits. And: "is bowed down within me." That is, memory fails from admiration, or desire. As Psalm 42:4 says: "These things I remember, as I pour out my …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It was an affliction that was misery itself. My affliction and my transgression (so some read it), my trouble and my sin that brought it upon me; this was the wormwood and the gall in the affliction and the misery. It is sin that makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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, Lam 3:21.

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Original language & word study

5 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
זָכ֣וֹר	za.Khor	continually <remember>	H2142 →
תִּזְכּ֔וֹר	tiz.Kor	it remembers	H2142 →
וְתָשׁ֥וֹחַ	ve.ta.shi.ach	so it may bow down	H7743 →
עָלַ֖י	'a.Lai	on me	H5921 →
נַפְשִֽׁי׃	naf.Shi	self my	H5315 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H2142zakhorcontinually <remember>230×

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 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.
leads to
- Psalms 42:5
  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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 30:17
  But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
- Jeremiah 33:6
  Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
- Psalms 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.
Through
Psalms 146:8
the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
leads to
- Psalms 11:7
  For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.
- Psalms 145:14
  The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.
- Acts 26:18
  to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified…
- Matthew 9:30
  And their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one finds out about this!”

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Lamentations

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Lamentations