Lamentations 3:20
Remembering [this] continually my soul is bowed down deeply within me.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
In Context
19Remembering my affliction and [the cause of] my complaint, wormwood and poison.
21[Yet] this answer will I give to my heart: therefore will I wait [in confidence].
Cross References
Job 21:6Yea, when I think of it, I am terrified, and shuddering seizeth hold of my flesh.
Psalms 42:11(42:12) Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within met? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet thank him, the salvation of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 44:25(44:26) For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body cleaveth unto the earth.
Psalms 146:8The Lord causeth the blind to see; the Lord raiseth up those who are bowed down; the Lord loveth 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 →