Lamentations 3:20

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 I bring back to my heart, Therefore I shall have hope. "