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Complete Jewish Bible

Lamentations 3:21

But in my mind I keep returning to something, something that gives me 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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
This I keep in mind, and because of this I have 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 But in my mind I keep returning to something, something that gives me hope — 22 that the grace of Adonai is not exhausted, that his compassion has not ended. 23 [On the contrary,] they are new every morning! How great your faithfulness! 24 " Adonai is all I have," I say; "therefore I will put my hope in him. 25 Adonai is good to those waiting for him, to those who are seeking him out. 26 It is good to wait patiently for the saving help of Adonai . 27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke from his youth. 28 Let him sit alone in silence when he has laid it on him. 29 Let him submit absolutely; there may yet be hope. 30 Let him offer his cheek to the one who strikes it, and receive his fill of insults.

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
The woman answered the serpent, "We may eat from the fruit of the trees of the garden,
Genesis 3:3
but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, ‘You are neither to eat from it nor touch it, or you will die.'"
Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together to make themselves loincloths.
Isaiah 61:10
I am so joyful in Adonai ! My soul rejoices in my God, for he has clothed me in salvation, dressed me with a robe of triumph, like a bridegroom wearing a festive turban, like a bride adorned with her jewels.
Romans 3:22
and it is a righteousness that comes from God, through the faithfulness of Yeshua the Messiah, to all who continue trusting. For it makes no difference whether one is a Jew or a Gentile,
2 Corinthians 5:21
God made this sinless man be a sin offering on our behalf, so that in union with him we might fully share in God's righteousness."

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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