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the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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Lamentations 3:21

This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Despondency;   Hope;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Providence of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lamentations, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Lamentations, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Joshua B. Hananiah;   Polemics and Polemical Literature;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 17;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Yet I call this to mind,and therefore I have hope:
Hebrew Names Version
This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
King James Version
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
English Standard Version
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:
New American Standard Bible
I recall this to my mind, Therefore I wait.
New Century Version
But I have hope when I think of this:
Amplified Bible
But this I call to mind, Therefore I have hope.
World English Bible
This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I consider this in mine heart: therefore haue I hope.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.
Legacy Standard Bible
This I will return to my heart;Therefore I will wait in hope.
Berean Standard Bible
Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
Contemporary English Version
Then I remember something that fills me with hope.
Complete Jewish Bible
But in my mind I keep returning to something, something that gives me hope —
Darby Translation
—This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.
Easy-to-Read Version
But then I think about this, and I have hope:
George Lamsa Translation
This I recall to mind; therefore I have hope in God.
Good News Translation
Yet hope returns when I remember this one thing:
Lexham English Bible
This I have reminded myself, therefore I will hope.
Literal Translation
I bring back this to my heart. On account of this I hope.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whyle I cosidre these thinges in my hert, I get a hope agayne.
American Standard Version
This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
King James Version (1611)
This I recall to my mind, therefore haue I hope.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whyle I consider these thinges in my heart, I get a hope agayne.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
This will I lay up in my heart, therefore I will endure.
English Revised Version
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Zai. Y bithenkynge these thingis in myn herte, schal hope in God.
Update Bible Version
This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.
Webster's Bible Translation
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
New English Translation
But this I call to mind; therefore I have hope:
New King James Version
This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.
New Living Translation
Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this:
New Life Bible
But this I remember, and so I have hope.
New Revised Standard
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, will I bring back to my heart, therefore, will I hope.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.
Revised Standard Version
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:
Young's Literal Translation
This I turn to my heart -- therefore I hope.

Contextual Overview

21 This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope. 22 It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit. 23 They are new every morning; great is your good faith. 24 I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him. 25 The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him. 26 It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord. 27 It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young. 28 Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him. 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope. 30 Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

recall to my mind: Heb. make to return to my heart, Psalms 77:7-11

therefore: Lamentations 3:24-29, Psalms 119:81, Psalms 130:7, Habakkuk 2:3

Reciprocal: Psalms 48:14 - this God Psalms 71:14 - But Ecclesiastes 9:4 - General Jeremiah 31:17 - General Hosea 2:15 - for Jonah 2:7 - I remembered Zechariah 9:12 - even 1 Corinthians 13:13 - hope

Cross-References

Genesis 3:2
And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:
Genesis 3:3
But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.
Genesis 3:7
And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together.
Isaiah 61:10
I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.
Romans 3:22
That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,
2 Corinthians 5:21
For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This I recall to my mind,.... Not affliction and misery, but the Lord's remembrance of his people; what he had been used to do, and would do again; and particularly what follows, the abundant mercy of God, and his great faithfulness; these things the prophet fetched back to his mind; and revolved them in his heart; says he,

and therefore have I hope; this revived his hope, which he was ready to say was perished from the Lord, and there was no foundation for it; but now he saw there was, and therefore took heart, and encouraged himself in the grace and mercy of God.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.


 
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