The Meaning of Lamentations 3:20 Explained

Lamentations 3:20

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

YLT: Remember well, and bow down doth my soul in me.

Darby: My soul hath them constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

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

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Lamentations 3:20 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Lamentations 3

1  The prophet bewails his own calamities
22  By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope
37  He acknowledges God's justice
55  He prays for deliverance
64  And vengeance on his enemies

What do the individual words in Lamentations 3:20 mean?

Still remembers - and sinks within me My soul
זָכ֣וֹר תִּזְכּ֔וֹר [ותשיח] (וְתָשׁ֥וֹחַ) עָלַ֖י נַפְשִֽׁי

זָכ֣וֹר  Still 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Infinitive absolute
Root: זָכַר 
Sense: to remember, recall, call to mind.
תִּזְכּ֔וֹר  remembers 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: זָכַר 
Sense: to remember, recall, call to mind.
[ותשיח]  - 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Conjunctive imperfect, third person feminine singular
(וְתָשׁ֥וֹחַ)  and  sinks 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: שׁוּחַ  
Sense: to sink down, be bowed down, be humble.
עָלַ֖י  within  me 
Parse: Preposition, first person common singular
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
נַפְשִֽׁי  My  soul 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: נֶפֶשׁ  
Sense: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion.

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