Lamentations 3:20
My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
In Context
19Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
21This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope:
Cross References
Job 21:6Even when I remember, I am troubled, and horror takes hold on my flesh.
Psalms 42:11Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 44:25For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body clings to the ground.
Psalms 146:8LORD opens [the eyes of] the blind. LORD raises up those who are bowed down. LORD loves the righteous.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →