Lamentations 3:21 BSB

Lamentations 3:21

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

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Lamentations (1274)

Third, memory results regards faithfulness. "But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope." Hence Sirach 51:8 says: "Then I remembered thy mercy, O Lord, and thy work from of old."

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

This I recall - Rather, “This will I bring back to my heart, therefore will I hope.” Knowing that God hears the prayer of the contrite, he begins again to hope.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 654: “Memory—The Handmaid Of Hope” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1865)

MEMORY is very often the servant of despondency. Despairing minds call to remembrance every dark foreboding in the past and every gloomy feature in the present. Memory stands like a handmaiden clothed in sackcloth, presenting to her master a cup of mingled gall and wormwood. Like Mercury, she hastens with winged heel to gather fresh thorns with which to fill the uneasy pillow and to bind fresh rods with which to scourge the already bleeding heart. There is, however, no necessity for this. Wisdom will transform Memory into an angel of comfort.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
זֹ֛את	zot	this	H2063 →
אָשִׁ֥יב	'a.Shiv	I bring back	H7725 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
לִבִּ֖י	li.Bi	heart my	H3820 →
עַל־	'al-	there-	H5921 →
כֵּ֥ן	ken	-fore	H3651 →
אוֹחִֽיל׃ ס	'o.Chil	I will wait	H3176 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Habakkuk 2:3
For the vision awaits an appointed time; it testifies of the end and does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it, since it will surely come and will not delay.
leads to
- Psalms 27:14
  Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!
- Hebrews 10:36–37
  You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
- Lamentations 3:25–26
  The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
- Ezekiel 12:25
  because I, the LORD, will speak whatever word I speak, and it will be fulfilled without delay. For in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak a message and bring it to pass,…
- Psalms 102:13
  You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor— the appointed time has come.
Through
Psalms 130:7
O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.
leads to
- Ephesians 1:7–8
  In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
- Psalms 40:3
  He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD.
- Revelation 5:9
  And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and…

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Lamentations

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Lamentations