Lamentations 3:21 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 3:21

This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

KJV

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ASV

This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.

WEB

Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:

YLT

This I turn to my heart--therefore I hope.

DBT

— This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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13 verses on the floor

1 Corinthians 13:13
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Zechariah 9:12
Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
Lamentations 3:24
The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Jeremiah 31:17
And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
Habakkuk 2:3
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

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That, bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that they are not worse. We are afflicted by the rod of his wrath, but it is of the lord's mercies that we are not consumed,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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