Lamentations 3:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

My soul. The primitive reading was "Thy soul", which the Sopherim have recorded, and state that they altered it to "My soul" (see App-33), considering it an offensive anthropomorphism. By so doing they destroyed the logical sequence and deep pathos of the primitive text. The three verses (Lamentations 3:19-21) retranslated will show this: 19) "Remember my humiliation and my misery, The wormwood and the gall 20) Yea, verily, Thou wilt remember, And Thy soul will mourn over me. 21) This. bring back to my heart, Therefore. shall have hope. "

Lamentations 3:20

20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbledf in me.