King James Version
Lamentations 3:20 in the King James Version says “My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. humbled: Heb. bowed” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. humbled: Heb. bowed”
Lamentations 3:20 · KJV
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. Remembering: or, Remember
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. humbled: Heb. bowed
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. recall: Heb. make to return to my heart
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“hath them still”
H2142properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e., to remember; by implication, to mention; to be male
“hath them still”
H2142properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e., to remember; by implication, to mention; to be male
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“My soul”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
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