Lamentations 3:20
My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
In Context
19Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.
21This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.
Cross References
Job 21:6At the very thought of it my flesh is shaking with fear.
Psalms 42:11\42:10\The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?
Psalms 44:25\44:24\Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?
Psalms 146:8The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;
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 →